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Fake Gov't Websites, Web Site Defacements, Fake 'UNPAID INVOICES' SPAM...
FYI...
- http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/04/f...s-defacements/
Apr 7, 2015
Fake Government Websites ...
- https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current...nment-Websites
Apr 7, 2015 - "The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released an alert that warns consumers of fraudulent government-services websites that mimic legitimate ones. Scam operators lure consumers to these -fraudulent- websites in order to steal their personal identifiable information (PII) and collect fees for services that are never delivered. US-CERT encourages users to review the IC3 Alert* for details and refer to the US-CERT Tip ST04-014** for information on social engineering and phishing attacks."
* http://www.ic3.gov/media/2015/150407-2.aspx
Apr 7, 2015
** https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-014
Apr 7, 2015
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Web Site Defacements ...
- https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current...te-Defacements
Apr 7, 2015 - "The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued an alert addressing recently perpetrated Web site defacements. The defacements advertise themselves as associated with the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS). However, FBI assesses that the perpetrators are -not- actually associated with this group. The perpetrators exploit WordPress content management system (CMS) vulnerabilities, leading to disruptive and costly effects. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the IC3 Alert* for details and refer to the US-CERT Alert TA13-024A** for information on CMS security."
* http://www.ic3.gov/media/2015/150407-1.aspx
Apr 7, 2015
** http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-024A
Apr 7, 2015
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Fake 'UNPAID INVOICES' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...ces-wayne.html
8 Apr 2015 - "This -fake- invoice spam is not from Orion Plastics but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.
From: Wayne Moore [wayne44118@ orionplastics .net]
Date: 8 April 2015 at 09:03
Subject: TWO UNPAID INVOICES
4/3----- LAST WEEK I CALLED REGARDS TWO UNPAID INVOICES FROM JAN 2015
INVOICE # 029911 DATED 1/7/15 FOR $840.80
INVOICE # 030042 DATED 1/30/15 FOR $937.00
PLEASE ADVISE WHEN YOU SENT CHECK AND TO WHAT ADDRESS
I HAVE ATTACHED THE NEW REMIT TO ADDRESS IN CASE YOU DON’T HAVE IT
REGARDS-WAYNE
In this case the email was -malformed- and the attachment REMITTANCE & WIRE TRANSFER ADDRESS.DOC wasn't downloadable (this may be a temporary problem). The document has a detection rate of just 1/56*. Extracting the document revealed this malicious macro... which downloads an additional component from:
http ://fzsv .de/11/004.exe
There are usually other download locations in different variants of the document, but the downloaded executable will be the same. The executable is saved as %TEMP%\c48.exe. This malicious binary has a detection rate of 6/54**. Automated analysis tools... shows it phoning home to the following IPs:
37.140.199.100 (Reg.Ru Hosting, Russia)
176.67.160.187 (UK2, UK)
81.148.134.130 (BT, UK)
46.228.193.201 (Aqua Networks Ltd, Germany)
83.136.80.46 (myLoc, Germany)
The Malwr report shows it attempting to connect to a couple of Akamai IPs that I suspect are NOT malicious and would cause collateral damage if blocked:
90.84.136.185
184.25.56.220
According to the same Malwr report it drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 4/57**.
Recommended blocklist:
37.140.199.100
176.67.160.187
81.148.134.130
46.228.193.201
83.136.80.46
MD5s:
3e3a09644170ad3184facb4cace14f8a
671c65cedc8642adf70ada3f74d5da19
14c2795bcc35c3180649494ec2bc7877 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1428485931/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1428485937/
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Fake 'BACS Transfer' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/bacs-t...e-pdf-malware/
8 Apr 2015 - "'BACS Transfer : Remittance for JSAG783GBP' pretending to come from random names and email addresses at natwest .com with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email which has random amounts looks like:
We have arranged a BACS transfer to your bank for the following amount : 4278.00
Please find details attached.
8 April 2015: BACS_Transfer_AQ004719.zip : Extracts to: BACS_Transfer_AQ004719.scr
Current Virus total detections: 3/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1428491113/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.43.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
141.105.141.87: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
66.7.216.61: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Password Re-activation' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/bankli...e-pdf-malware/
8 Apr 2015 - "'Bankline ROI – Password Re-activation Form' pretending to come from various names and email addresses @rbs .co .uk with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please find the Re-activation form attached, send one per user ensuring only one box is selected in section 3. A signatory on the bank mandate must sign the form.
Fax to 1850 262125 or alternatively you may wish to email the completed document, by attaching it to an email and sending it to banklineadministration@ rbs .co .uk
On receipt of the completed form we will respond to the request within 2 working hours and communicate this to the user by email.
<<Bankline_Password_reset_3978322.pdf>>
Please note – The life-span of an activation code is 21 days; after this time, the activation code will expire and a new one must be ordered.
Please be aware when choosing a new pin and password for the service, it is important not to use pin/passwords that you have used before but to use completely different details.
If you are the sole Standard Administrator may I take this opportunity to suggest when you are reinstated on the system, to set up another User in a Standard Administrator role. This will prevent you being locked out completely and allow you to order a new activation code from within the system and reset your security sooner.
If you require any further assistance then please do not hesitate to contact us on 1850 245140 and one of our associates will be happy to assist you.
Regards
Bankline Product Support ...
Same malware payload, although -renamed- as Bankline_Password_reset_0319234.zip (random numbers) as today’s NatWest attempt BACS Transfer : Remittance for JSAG783GBP – fake PDF malware* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/bacs-t...e-pdf-malware/
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Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - malicious doc/xls
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...pany-name.html
8 Apr 2015 - "This -Dridex- spam takes a slightly different approach from other recent ones. Instead of -attaching- a malicious Office document, it downloads it from a compromised server instead. The example I saw read:
From: Mitchel Levy
Date: 8 April 2015 at 13:45
Subject: Invoice from MOTHERCARE
Your latest invoice is now available for download. We kindly advise you to pay the invoice in time.
Download your invoice here.
Thanks for attention. We appreciate your business.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Mitchel Levy, MOTHERCARE
The link in the email has an address using the domain afinanceei .com plus a subdomain based on the recipients email address. It also has the recipients email address embedded in the URL, for example: http ://victimbfe .afinanceei .com/victim@ victim .domain/
This is hosted on 31.24.30.12 (Granat Studio / Tomgate LLC, Russia) and it leads to a landing page that looks like this:
> https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUPtkxCCO...ex-landing.png
... The link in the email downloads a file from:
http ://31.24.30.12 /api/Invoice.xls
At the moment the download server seems very unstable and is generating a lot of 500 errors. Incidentally, http ://31.24.30.12 /api/ shows a -fake- page pretending to be from Australian retailer Kogan:
> https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lp2QSnPCo...fake-kogan.png
As you might guess, Invoice.xls contains a malicious macro... but the real action is some data hidden in the spreadsheet itself... it instructs the computer to download a malicious binary from:
http ://46.30.43.102 /cves/kase.jpg
This is saved as %TEMP%\dfsdfff.exe. Unsurprisingly, 46.30.43.102 is another Russian IP, this time EuroByte LLC. This binary has a VirusTotal detection rate of 6/57*. Automated analysis tools... show it communicating with the following IPs:
109.74.146.18 (VNET a.s., Bulgaria)
176.81.92.142 (Telefonica, Spain)
147.96.6.154 (Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Spain)
199.201.121.169 (Synaptica, Canada)
210.205.126.189 (Nowonwoman, Korea)
37.58.49.37 (Leaseweb, Germany)
87.117.229.29 (iomart, UK)
108.61.189.99 (Choopa LLC, US)
116.75.106.118 (Hathway, India)
107.191.46.222 (Choopa LLC, Canada)
In addition there are some Akamai IPs which look benign...
184.25.56.212
184.25.56.205
2.22.234.90
According to this Malwr report it drops several files including a malicious Dridex DLL which is the same one found in this attack:
> http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...ces-wayne.html
Recommended blocklist:
109.74.146.18
176.81.92.142
147.96.6.154
199.201.121.169
210.205.126.189
37.58.49.37
87.117.229.29
108.61.189.99
116.75.106.118
107.191.46.222
46.30.43.102
31.24.30.12
MD5s:
e8cd8be37e30c9ad869136534f358fc5
671c65cedc8642adf70ada3f74d5da19
a4af11437798b7de5a0884623ed42478 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1428499086/
:fear::fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Credit card transaction', 'sorry you had a problem' , 'eFax', 'Chase' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Credit card transaction' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/credit...sheet-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'Credit card transaction' pretending to come from Matthews, Tina <tina@ royalcarson .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ransaction.png
9 April 2015: 20150326094147512.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56*
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1428569272/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...hews-tina.html
9 Apr 2015
"...Tina Matthews
... Recommended blocklist:
91.230.60.219
66.110.179.66
176.108.1.17
202.44.54.5
87.236.215.103
128.199.203.165
128.135.197.30
185.35.77.160
95.163.121.0/24 ..."
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Fake 'sorry you had a problem' SPAM – malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/were-s...chase-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'We’re sorry you had a problem with your purchase' coming from random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... There are lots of different subjects with this malware spam run today. They include:
we’re issuing you a refund
a full refund
We’re sorry you had a problem with your purchase
The refund include original shipping
a payment reminder
RE: direct debit payment
direct debit payment
invoice
NEW Payment reminder ...
The email looks like:
'We issued you a full refund of 161.18 on Apr 09, 2015 The refund includes the purchase price plus original shipping.
Decision:
This case has been decided in your favor.
We’re sorry you had a problem with your purchase, and we’re issuing you a refund for this case.'
-Or-
'Hello, Payment Reminder: your invoice 62169289 dated 07.04.2015 in the amount 573.96'
All the emails have different amounts and various dates. The attachment names vary. So far I have seen refund_shipping_DOC.xml.exe and invoice.92004711.2015.04.08.doc.exe ...
9 April 2015: refund_shipping_DOC.xml.zip: Extracts to: refund_shipping_DOC.xml.exe
Current Virus total detections: 1/57* - This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1428567172/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Trade Confirmation' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-t...e-pdf-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'Your Trade Confirmation(s) are Available' pretending to come from noreply@ masteryconnect .com with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please review the attached RFI, Submittal cheatsheet – this update reflects latest changes from RVA.
9 April 2015 : view kklvyg.zip: Extracts to: view.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/56* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1428583433/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
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Fake 'Mail Out Report' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/mail-o...e-pdf-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'Mail Out Report Attached' pretending to come from Alert ARC Reports <zen179397@ zen .co .uk> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
From Securitas, please do not reply to this e-mail as it is auto generated.
For any problems please e-mail derry.andrews@ securitas .co .uk
9 April 2015: Q100219366_Mail Out Report.zip: Extracts to: Q100219366_Mail Out Report.exe
Current Virus total detections: 1/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1428580032/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.38.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
141.105.141.87: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
208.91.198.171: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Voicemail' SPAM – wav malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/voipfo...e-wav-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'New message in mailbox 301***200' pretending to come from Voipfone Voicemail <voicemail@ voipfone .co .uk> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...n-mailbox..png
9 April 2015: msg0005.wav.zip : Extracts to: msg0005.wav.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/47* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper wav ( voice) file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1428582133/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.99.222.162: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
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Fake 'incoming wire' – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/metro-...e-pdf-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'Unknown incoming wire pretending to come from random names @metrobankonline .co.uk with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
The banking activity with today’s posting date shows Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) that has been received. Our bank has noted the following information:
EFT Amount: 60,200.00 GBP
Remitted From: SSA TREAS 310 MISC PAY
Designated for: UNKNOWN
Please download and open attachment with full imformation about this Electronic Fund Transfer payment.
If you confirm that it belongs to your agency or department, please email back or give us a call. Then, our office needs to receive a completed General Deposit no later than 10:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Note: If these funds cannot be identified or if no one claims this EFT, we are required to process the return of this EFT by 10:00, April 09, 2015.
Thank you...
9 April 2015: electronic_fund_transfer.zip: Extracts to: electronic_fund_transfer.exe
Current Virus total detections: 3/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1428584776/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.43.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
141.105.141.87: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
149.255.58.7: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
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Fake 'disneyinteractive' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/disney...e-pdf-malware/
9 Apr 2015 - "'yearly Report' pretending to come from apps@ e.disneyinteractive .com with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Annual Report as an attachment
9 April 2015: Annual #Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18_14_02 +0100.cab: Extracts to: Report.exe
Current Virus total detections: 7/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1428598594/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.43.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
141.105.141.87: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
104.156.59.86: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
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Namailu .com SPAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/namailucom-spam.html
9 Apr 2015 - "This -spam- has been appearing in my inbox for several days now:
From: Shana Felton [9k7bf-2976014268@serv .craigslist .org]
Date: 9 April 2015 at 19:10
Subject: New commitment invitation - [redacted]
Sarah Smith
Hi Namailu User,
You have a commitment invitation from Sarah Smith. To view your commitment invitation please follow this link:
View Invitation
Copyright © 2015, Namailu Online Ltd...
Clicking through the link leads to https ://www .namailu .com/Smith.Sarah.206
> https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fuQur_gyw...0/namailu1.jpg
Obviously we are led to believe that the girl in the picture is sending the message:
> https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5e-oLshpu...448322.png.jpg
Reverse image search comes up with no matches, unusually. Goodness knows how many people there are called "Sarah Smith" in New Zealand. Probably quite a lot.The spam messages come from a range of IPs that are also used to spam out promotional material for a site called dirtyemojis .com (using a redirector of dirtyemojis .ru). The spam is sent from a range of Chinese IP addresses... In each case the "From" address is -fake- ... A quick search of the body text of the message shows that it has been spammed out quite widely... this clueless approach does -not- bode well for a site that deals in highly personal data and my personal opinion would be to give this particular outfit a very wide berth."
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Fake 'eFax'message SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/efax-m...e-pdf-malware/
8 Apr 2015 - "'eFax message from “Anna” – 2 page(s), Caller-ID: 1- 920-530-9136' pretending to come from eFax <no-replay@ efax .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Logo_eFax
JOIN THE eFax COMMUNITY
Facebook twitter google+ youtube
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You have a new eFax message. To view your message, see your fax attached or login here.
Fax Details
Caller Id:
Received:
Type:
Number of pages:
Reference #:
920-530-9136
Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:43:01 +0100
Attached in pdf
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8 April 2015: SK6dCw 1X4W21v 3tk3rGIT.zip: Extracts to: chase.exe
Current Virus total detections: 5/55* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1428511349/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.39.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
141.105.141.87: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
67.222.12.237: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
109.237.134.22: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Chase Card For your account' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/chase-...e-pdf-malware/
8 Apr 2015 - "'Chase Card For your account' ending pretending to come from Chase <dont@ alertsp .chase .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... Other subjects in this chase card spam malware run are:
Hi Customer
For your account ending ...
The email looks like:
If you are having trouble viewing this message, please click here. E-mail Security Information.
CHASE
GET ITEMIZED & ORGANIZED
1. Log on to www .chase .com/creditcards.
At the bottom of you statement page, click "year end summary" link.
View,print, or save your summary.
ACTIVATE ALERTS
GO PAPERLESS
Dear Customer,
For your credit card ending in: 0093Your 2015 Year End Summary is now attached and ready for you to view. If you have additional accounts that qualify for a year end summary, you will be notified shortly when they are available.
This year’s summary includes eight categories to provide detail about how you use your card. We hope you find this summary helpful as you prepare your taxes and set your budget for 2016.
See all your transactions by category:
Categories
Sincerely,
sig
Deb Walden
Executive Vice President
Customer Experience
Chase Card Services
spacer
GET YOUR FREE SUMMARY - GO NOW
8 April 2015: Chase_Chase Card_information.zip: Extracts to: Chase_Chase Card_information.exe
Current Virus total detections: 4/55* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected...."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1428505049/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
91.198.22.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
141.105.141.87: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
67.222.12.237: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
109.237.134.22: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
UDP communications
191.233.81.105: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
:fear::fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Invoice Payment Confirmation', 'Receipt Request' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice Payment Confirmation' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/webhos...sheet-malware/
10 Apr 2015 - "'Invoice Payment Confirmation' pretending to come from WEBHOSTING UK <billing@ webhosting .uk .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...nfirmation.png
10 April 2015 : WHUK2009-160824.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/57*
... which downloads Dridex from [DO NOT CLICK] architectureetenvironnement .ma/762/532 which is saved as %temp%\miron3.6.exe (virus total**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1428669374/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1428673121/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
37.140.199.100: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
90.84.59.66: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
185.35.77.250: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
94.23.173.233: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
94.23.171.198: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
87.236.215.151: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Receipt Request' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/mcmast...sheet-malware/
10 Apr 2015 - "'Your Receipt Request' pretending to come from McMaster-Carr <la.sales@ mcmaster .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Hi ,
I attached the receipts you requested.
Annette
10 April 2015 : Receipts.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/57*
This is exactly the same malware as the other office macro malware spreading today WEBHOSTING UK Invoice Payment Confirmation* – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/webhos...sheet-malware/
:fear::fear: :mad:
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VBS Malware tied to Attacks on French TV Station TV5Monde
FYI...
VBS Malware tied to Attacks on French TV Station TV5Monde
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...media-attacks/
Apr 11, 2015 - "... we found that VBS_KJWORM.SMA is observed in at least 12 countries in the past week, including South Africa and India... this malware is available in underground forums and can be used by anyone. This particular malware can be used as a backdoor into the affected system. In addition, the C&C server reportedly used in the attack has been tied to another backdoor, BKDR_BLADABINDI.C. Our investigation leads us to believe the actors behind KJWORM and BLADABINDI are the same. Further information from the Smart Protection Network suggests that other VBS malware variants are currently circulating in the wild. Four separate C&C servers (distinct from those used used by NJWORM). These different samples, in turn, are connected to previous NJRAT/JENXCUS attacks. NJRAT has been tied to DUNIHI attacks in the Latin American region... The massive cyber attack that hit the French TV5Monde television network this past April 9, according to reports, began at approximately 10:00 P.M. local time (4:00 P.M. Eastern time), when 11 of their channels went off the air... TV5Monde’s website, company email, as well as their social media outlets came under attack. The network’s Facebook page was used to post propaganda messages allegedly from the Islamic State (ISIS). One of the network’s Twitter accounts was also accessed and posted messages against the United States and France, as well as issued threats to families of French soldiers. Copies of French soldiers’ IDs and passports were also published. It should be noted that the technical background of this attack is not yet clear. However, the -RAT- generator is currently available in several hacker forums and can be used by any threat actor... one does not need a lot of technical skill to use it..."
:fear::fear:
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Fake 'tax return', 'inTuit Payroll' SPAM – PDF malware, 419 SCAM
FYI...
Fake 'tax return' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-t...e-pdf-malware/
13 Apr 2015 - "'Your tax return was incorrectly filled out' pretending to come from user <chak.noris@ tax .gov> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Attention: Owner/ Manager
We would like to inform you that you have made mistakes while completing
the last tax form application (ID: 0054206036751) .
Please follow the advice of our tax specialists:
http ://clinicaasera .org/FAX.MESSAGE-DATA-STORAGE/incoming-new_message.html
Please amend the mistakes and send the corrected tax return to your tax
agent as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
13 April 2015: new-message.zip: Extracts to: new-message.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/57* . This 'Your tax return was incorrectly filled out' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1428931605/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.43.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
5.141.22.43: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
217.160.235.239: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'inTuit Payroll' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/payrol...e-pdf-malware/
13 Apr 2015 - "'Payroll Received by Intuit' pretending to come from Intuit Payroll Services <IntuitPayrollServices@ payrollservices .intuit .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear, info
We received your payroll on April 13, 2015 at 09:06 AM EST.
Attached is a copy of your Remittance. Please click on the attachment in order to view it.
Please note the deadlines and status instructions below:
If your payroll is received BEFORE 5 p.m., your Direct Deposit employees will be paid two (2) banking days from the date received or on your paycheck date, whichever is later.
If your payroll is received AFTER 5 p.m., your employees will be paid three (3) banking days from the date received or on your paycheck date, whichever is later.
YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WILL BE DEBITED THE DAY BEFORE YOUR CHECKDATE.
Funds are typically withdrawn before normal banking hours so please make sure you have sufficient funds available by 12 a.m. on the date funds are to be withdrawn.
Intuit must receive your payroll by 5 p.m., two banking days before your paycheck date or your employees will not be paid on time.
Intuit does not process payrolls on weekends or federal banking holidays. A list of federal banking holidays can be viewed at the Federal Reserve website.
Thank you for your business.
Sincerely,
Intuit Payroll Services ...
13 April 2015: payroll_report_08222014.zip: Extracts to: payroll_report_08222014.exe
Current Virus total detections: 6/57* . This 'Payroll Received by Intuit' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1428945209/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
216.146.43.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
27.121.64.159: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
5.141.22.43: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
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Another '419' Spam/Scam
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-...ault-419-spam/
Apr 13, 2015 - "Every now and then a 419 scammer dredges up an old scam mail, gives it a bit of spit and polish then sends it back out into the wild. The “International Reconciliation and Logistics Vault” has been a subject for 419 attempts* for a number of years now, though the typical format of these missives tends to be more like this one. Indeed, here it comes again:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...isticsspam.jpg
... Should you receive this one, feel free to send it right to the trash..."
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams
:fear::fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Invoice', 'Account reconcilation' SPAM, CoinVault de-cryption
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...en-varker.html
15 Apr 2015 - "This fake invoice has a malicious attachment:
From: Kairen Varker [mailto:kvarker@ notifications .kashflow .com] On Behalf Of Kairen Varker
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:26 AM
Subject: Invoice from
I have made the changes need and the site is now mobile ready . Invoice is attached
In this case the attachment is called Invoice-83230.xls which is currently undetected* by AV vendors. It contains this malicious macro... which downloads a component from the following location (although there are probably more than this):
http ://925balibeads .com/94/053.exe
This is saved as %TEMP%\stepk1.5a.exe and has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/57**. Automated analysis tools... show the malware phoning home to:
78.24.218.186 (TheFirst-RU, Russia)
176.67.160.187 (UK2, UK)
87.236.215.151 (OneGbits, Lithuania)
154.69.104.137 (Sandton Telkom, South Africa)
107.191.46.222 (Vultr Holdings / Choopa LLC, Canada)
94.23.171.198 (OVH, Czech Republic)
74.119.194.18 (RuWeb Corp, US)
37.140.199.100 (Reg.Ru Hosting, RUssia)
89.28.83.228 (StarNet SRL, Moldova)
The Malwr report shows that among other files it drops a malicious Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 2/57***.
Recommended blocklist:
78.24.218.186
184.25.56.188
176.67.160.187
87.236.215.151
154.69.104.137
107.191.46.222
94.23.171.198
74.119.194.18
37.140.199.100
89.28.83.228
MD5s:
e46dcc4a49547b547f357a948337b929
1748fc9c5c0587373bf15a6bda380543
1e010195d2e5f6096095078482624995 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1428998998/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1428998395/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1428999812/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
14 Apr 2015
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1428997086/
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Fake 'Account reconcilation' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/accoun...sheet-malware/
14 Apr 2015 - "'Account reconcilation statement' from [random company] [random characters] – coming from random names and email addresses with a zip file attachment that extracts to a malicious word doc and an image of a sales chart is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...m_version1.png
... Where you can see the name of the alleged sender matches the name in the body of the email and the random characters in the subject match the attachment zip name. Once you extract the content of the zip you get a folder on the computer that is simply named as a number 2 or 8 or 9 etc. opening the folder gives you a malicious word doc and an image of a sales chart like one of these, that are intended to help convince you of the genuine nature of the word doc and entice you to open it and get infected:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ion-images.jpg
...
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...sual-graph.jpg
...
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con.../sales-cmp.jpg
... 4 April 2015 : documentation.doc / vs74_stats.doc / cmp static.doc
Current Virus total detections: 0/56* | 0/56** | 0/56*** . So far I have examined 3 different versions of this malware... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1429005163/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1429005436/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1429005436/
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Fake 'HM Revenue' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/cis-on...e-pdf-malware/
14 Apr 2015 - "'CIS Online submission received by HM Revenue and Customs' pretending to come from helpdesk@ ir-efile .gov .uk with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...nd-Customs.png
14 April 2015: Returns_Report.zip: Extracts to: Returns_Report.exe
Current Virus total detections: 5/57* . This 'CIS Online submission received by HM Revenue and Customs' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected...."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429017381/
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Fake 'Credit Release' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/re-cre...e-pdf-malware/
14 Apr 2015 - "'RE: Credit Release Request' pretending to come from Bank <tim.redmon@ hsbc .com> ( random names @ hsbc .com) with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...se-Request.png
14 April 2015: banP_.zip: Extracts to: banк.exe
Current Virus total detections: 6/57* . This RE: Credit Release Request is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1429017978/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
83.219.139.124: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
90.84.60.97: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
5.141.22.43: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
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Fake 'Auto Invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
14 Apr 2015 - "'INVOICE BI653133' pretending to come from websales(random number)@autonetplus .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Account: 1164
From: DORSET AUTO SPARES BLANDFORD
The following are attached to this email:
IBI653133.XLS
14 April 2015 : IBI653133.XLS
Current Virus total detections: 0/56* ... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1429017301/
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CoinVault ransomware: Retrieve data without paying the criminals
- http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3017
14.04.2015 - "Victims of the CoinVault ransomware have a chance to retrieve their data -without- having to pay the criminals, thanks to a repository of decryption keys and a -decryption- application made available online by Kaspersky Lab and the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) of the Netherlands’ police:
> https://noransom.kaspersky.com/
CoinVault ransomware has been around for a while, encrypting victims’ files and demanding Bitcoins to unlock them. In order to help victims recover from an attack, the NHTCU and the Netherlands’ National Prosecutors Office obtained a database from a CoinVault command & control sever. This server contained Initialization Vectors (IVs), Keys and private Bitcoin wallets and helped to create the special repository of decryption keys. As the investigation is ongoing, new keys will be added when available. “We have uploaded a huge number of keys onto the site. If we do not currently have records for a particular Bitcoin wallet, you can check again in the near future, because together with the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police we are continuously updating the information,” - says Jornt van der Wiel, Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab. CoinVault has infected more than 1,000 Windows-based machines in over 20 countries, with the majority of victims in the Netherlands, Germany, the USA, France and the UK. Victims have also been registered in Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Luxemburg, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Ireland, Croatia, Russia, Canada, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, China, Indonesia, Thailand, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico."
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Fake 'USPS' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/usps-f...e-pdf-malware/
14 Apr 2015 - "'USPS – Fail to deliver your package' pretending to come from USPS <no-reply@ usps .gov> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ur-package.png
14 April 2015: USPS2335999.zip: Extracts to: USPS04142015.scr
Current Virus total detections: 7/55* . This 'USPS – Fail to deliver your package' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429034017/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
83.219.139.124: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
90.84.60.64: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...ing-water.html
15 Apr 2015 - "This -fake- invoice does not come from Living Water, but instead is a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.
From: Natalie [mailto:accounts@living-water.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 AM
Subject: Invoice from Living Water
Dear Customer :
Your invoice is attached. Please remit payment at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your business - we appreciate it very much.
Sincerely,
Living Water
0203 139 9051
In the sample that I received, the attachment was named Inv_300846161_from_Living_W.doc which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 1/55*. This contains a malicious macro... which downloads a file from the following location:
http ://adlitipcenaze .com/353/654.exe
There are probably other download locations, but they will all have the same payload. This is saved as %TEMP%\rizob1.0.exe and currently has a detection rate of 6/57**. Automated analysis tools... show attempted connections to the following IPs:
89.28.83.228 (StarNet, Moldova)
78.24.218.186 (TheFirst-RU, Russia)
37.140.199.100 (Reg.Ru Hosting, Russia)
According to this Malwr report it drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 4/57***.
Recommended blocklist:
89.28.83.228
78.24.218.186
37.140.199.100
MD5s:
2ecf5e35d681521997e293513144fd80
9932c4a05ca0233f27b0f8404a8dc5bd
68e1e7251314944a4b4815adced70328
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1429086775/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1429086792/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1429088210/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/natali...sheet-malware/
15 Apr 2015
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1429086260/
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Fake 'info' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/re-info-fake-pdf-malware/
15 Apr 2015 - "'RE: info' pretending to come from user <michael@ mwrk .co .za> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...The email looks like:
Always choose a reliable partner.
We are those who can offer the best financial proposal to you.
We can find the best solution to solve your specific problem.
Details see the attachment.
15 April 2015: New doc(43).zip : Extracts to: partner.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/57* . This 'RE: info' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1429093267/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
83.219.139.124: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
5.141.22.43: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Receipt', ACH SPAM, Facebook SCAM
FYI...
Fake 'Receipt' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/carmen...sheet-malware/
16 Apr 2015 - "'RECEIPT' pretending to come from Carmen Rodriguez <crodriguez@ hswcorp .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Thank you for your business.
Carmen Rodriguez
Administrative Assistant
16 April 2015 : 58173841.doc | Current Virus total detections: 3/56*
... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it...."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1429173650/
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Fake ACH SPAM - Malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...ification.html
16, Apr 2015 - "This -fake- ACH spam leads to malware:
From: aileen.alberts@ [redacted]
Date: 16 April 2015 at 15:55
Subject: Decisive notification about your Automated Clearing House payment
The Automated Clearing House transaction transfer, recently initiated from your company"s online bank account, has been rejected by the EPA.
Rejected ACH payment
Automated Clearing House transfer Case # L669461617
Transaction Total 27504.02 US Dollars
Email [redacted]
Reason of Termination Download full details
Please visit the link provided at the top to see more information about this problem.
The link in the email goes to a download location at dropbox .com which downloads a malicious Word document Automated_Clearing_House transaction9090.doc which contains this macro... it is rather different from other offerings. From what I can tell, it downloads an encrypted file... from:
sundsvallsrk .nu/tmp/1623782.txt -or-
hpg .se/tmp/1623782.txt
And some sort of executable from Dropbox with a detection rate of 3/57*. Automated analysis tools are inconclusive at the moment... although the Payload Security report[1] does show several dropped files including two malicious scripts... Of note is that one of the scripts downloads what looks like a PNG from:
savepic .su/5540444.png
For now, I would recommend blocking traffic to
sundsvallsrk .nu
hpg .se
savepic .su "
1] https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/samp...nvironmentId=2
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1429197445/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'IRS tax refund' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/paymen...sheet-malware/
16 Apr 2015 - "'Payment confirmation for tax refund request # 3098-2344342' pretending to come from Internal Revenue Service <office@ irs .gov> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...nd-request.png
"... Payment method : Wire transfer..."
16 April 2015 : confimation_3098-2344342.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56*
... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1429207628/
- http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc152.html
"There are -three- options for receiving your federal individual income tax refund:
- The fastest way is by direct deposit (electronic funds transfer) into your checking or savings account, including an individual retirement arrangement (IRA);
- By purchase of U.S. Series I Savings Bonds; or
- By paper check sent to the address listed on your return..."
... 'Wire Transfer' is -not- an option.
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SCAM lures Facebook Users with “Hot Video”, Drops Trojan
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-...-drops-trojan/
Apr 16, 2015 - "... as more and more users are creating, sharing, and viewing videos on Facebook now more than ever, we can also expect online criminals to jump in on the bandwagon and attempt to get some of the attention, too... if you see an interesting post on your feed carrying a link to a supposed video that, once visited looks similar to the screenshot below, know that you’re no longer on Facebook but on an imitation page located at http ://storage [dot]googleapis[dot]com/yvideos/video2[dot]html:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...fake-fb-yt.png
The individual or group behind this scam has abused Google’s free online file storage service to house the HTML page that has mimicked Facebook’s interface. This method has been a long-time practice of phishers who use free such services like Dropbox and Google Drive in their campaigns. Once you hit the Play button, an error message appears on top, saying that Flash Player is required to view the video. A file named youtube.scr is downloaded instead:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...e-fb-yt-dl.png
... This file lacks the sophistication to detect virtual environments, so one can easily test it against any free, online sandbox—in this case, I used this one from Payload Security — to see how badly it behaves on a system once executed. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) detects* youtube.scr as Trojan.Ransom.AHK."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1429127928/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Business Support Giveaway - 419 Scam
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-...away-419-scam/
Apr 15 - "... we can’t get too excited, because it’s just a fresh run of a 419 scam which has been in circulation in similar forms for about a year or two:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...4/unfound1.jpg
... Not the most watertight of scams when your gameplan is effectively “We’re all about solving global problems and saving the world in times of disaster...” Of course, most recipients probably don’t own a bank or a gold-plated yacht and may well throw reason out the window in favour of hitting the -reply- button. As with all mails of this type, the only thing you’re going to get is some identity fraud, financial loss and the possibility of turning yourself into a money mule. It certainly isn’t worth responding to the senders, so feel free to -delete- it and advise any recipients you know to do the same thing. This is one piece of business support you can definitely do without."
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Credit Card Statement' SPAM, 'Conference' SCAM, Flash EK strikes DoubleClick
FYI...
Fake 'Credit Card Statement' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/julie-...sheet-malware/
17 Apr 2015 - "'Credit Card Statement' pretending to come from Julie Mckenzie <julie38@ swift-cut .co .uk> ( random numbers after Julie) with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...-Statement.png
17 April 2015 : C Swift Credit Card.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56*
... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1429265218/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...-mckenzie.html
17 Apr 2015
"... Attached is a file C Swift Credit Card.doc which comes in at least -four- different versions, all of which are malicious and all of which have a macro... These macros download a file from one of the following locations:
http ://oolagives .com/24/733.exe
http ://derekthedp .com/24/733.exe
http ://sempersleep .com/24/733.exe
This is saved as %TEMP%\grant8i.exe and has a VirusTotal detection rate of 11/54* (identified clearly as a Dridex component). Automated analysis... shows that it attempts to communicate with:
46.36.219.32 (FastVPS, Estonia)
I recommend that you -block- traffic to that IP address. Furthermore, the Malwr report shows it dropping a malicious DLL with a detection rate of 6/53**."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1429294915/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
46.36.219.32: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1429295949/
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Fake 'Conference' SCAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/scam...ys-summit.html
17 Apr 2015 - "This spam email forms part of a Conference Scam*:
* http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...-visas/280445/
From: United Nations Summit [no_replytoold@ live .com]
Reply-To: unitednation .unt@gmail .com
Date: 16 April 2015 at 17:59
Subject: Your Invited For A Five Days Summit 5th -9th May, 2015 in London (UK),
Dear Invitee, Nonprofit/NGO Colleague,
UN General Assembly invites companies and organizations to participate in this important meeting. UN convening a Four-day Global Summit of Economists, Educationists, Administrators, Manufacturers, International Finance, Corporate Finance, Researchers, Non-Governmental Organizations, Religious Leaders, Community Organizations,lawyer and law firm,individuals from the public and Private Sector from 5th-9th May, 2015 in London (UK) to assess the worst global economic down turn since the Great Depression. The aim is to identify emergency and long-term responses to mitigate the impact of the crisis, especially on vulnerable populations, and initiate a needed dialogue on the transformation of the international financial architecture, taking into account the needs and concerns of all countries of the world. You are invited to take part in the International Conference.
Registration to this Summit is absolutely "free" and strictly for invited individuals and organizations only. As an invitee, you have received a registration code UN/CODE/66987/2015-UK with the invitation letter, which grants you access to the registration form.
The United Nations General Assembly will sponsor free travel costs and all-round flight tickets for all participant. Invited participants will only be responsible for their hotel accommodation and feeding cost at the Royal Queens Hotel...
... Notice that "Invited participants will only be responsible for their hotel accommodation and feeding cost at the Royal Queens Hotel." There is -no- hotel in London with the name "Royal Queens Hotel", but the scammers will magic one up for you to take pre-payment for your hotel.. and will then -vanish- with your money. There are some similarly-named hotels in London, for example the Hotel Royal @ Queens, but this is not the same hotel. Be warned though that sometimes scammers do go to the effort of setting up a -fake- hotel website to make the scam more credible.
Avoid."
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Flash EK strikes again via Google’s DoubleClick
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malver...s-doubleclick/
Apr 16, 2015 - "A few days ago, we blogged about a -malvertising- attack on the HuffingtonPost website* via a major ad network which took advantage of a vulnerability in Flash Player... another major attack was also being carried on around the same time, most likely by the same gang. Working with ClarityAd, we quickly confirmed the malicious activity around 04/11 which showed a well-known ad network (merchenta) with direct ties to Google’s DoubleClick being caught in a large malvertising incident. The latest malvertising attack was carried through merchenta, a company that provides a platform for ad exchange and direct integrations with top publishers. They boast a 28 -billion- monthly impressions for the US alone and work directly with top tier ad networks such as Google’s DoubleClick. The criminals posed as an advertiser, infiltrated the platform via a third party and managed to house a malicious advert directly on merchanta’s ad platform which was fed into Google’s DoubleClick channels. Within minutes, the booby trapped ad had a 95% reach in USA, Europe & UK exposing a huge number of people worldwide:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con.../merchenta.png
Although DoubleClick is 'not directly responsible' for loading the malicious ad, it starts the chain of trust with the publisher, which unfortunately has little control over the subsequent transactions taking place:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...04/newflow.png
... this malicious SWF had -zero- detection on VirusTotal** when it was first submitted... All ad networks have been informed, but the attack did last for a few days most likely infecting a significant number of people. This latest example is yet another reminder of one of the big weaknesses with online advertising. Ad networks rely on third parties and the chain of trust can easily be broken when -one- rogue actor joins in... These crooks essentially pose as working for a fortune 500 company and submit a clean advert. The ad network is very interested because that will be a big customer and so they make sure to accommodate the client as much as they can. The advert still goes through quality assurance and security tests before finally getting ready for prime time. Right before that happens, the rogue advertiser sends a -new- version of the ad (with only a minor change they claim) and the ad network, not wanting to lose a client, skips the checks that were already done. It turns out that the new version of the ad is -malicious- and yet has -full- clearance to be displayed via major networks. This is just one of the many tricks rogue advertisers will use to insert themselves in the chain..."
* https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malver...ll-ransomware/
Apr 13, 2015
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1429069586/
File name: merchenta-flash-malware.swf
Detection ratio: 0/57
:fear::fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Pending payment', 'HSBC credit card', UPS SPAM, Fiesta EK
FYI...
Fake 'Pending payment' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/hector...sheet-malware/
20 Apr 2015 - "'Pending payment' pretending to come from Hector Malvido <handyman1181@ hotmail .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ng-payment.png
20 April 2015 : filename-1.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/57* | 3/50**
... So far I have seen 2 versions of this malware... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1429523984/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1429523284/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...r-malvido.html
20 Apr 2015
"... filename-1.doc (3/57* detection by AV vendors)...
... %TEMP%\grant8i.exe - VirusTotal detection rate of 5/57**
... Dridex DLL with a 3/57*** detection rate...
Recommended blocklist:
89.28.83.228
MD5s:
673626be5ea81360f526a378355e3431
7ca6884ad8900797c7f0efaaabe0c0da
8c0661aefa9aa25d8fddf2a95297e04e "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1429525562/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f...is/1429525576/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1429526728/
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Fake 'HSBC credit card' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/hsbc-c...e-pdf-malware/
20 Apr 2015 - "'HSBC credit card balance – new credit terms' coming from random names and random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear client,
We are pleased to inform you that our bank is ready to offer you a bank
loan. We would like to ask you to open the Attachment to this letter and
read the terms.
HSBC ...
These all have random attachment names. The name of the pretend sender matches the attachment zip name. Some I have seen are:
mark.zip
info.zip
john.shank.zip
These extract to names like monkey.exe had.exe blya.exe fable.exe
20 April 2015: random zip name : Extracts to: random file name
Current Virus total detections: 3/55* | 3/55** | 3/55*** . This 'HSBC credit card balance – new credit terms' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1429531817/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1429531906/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1429531906/
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UPS Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...31653/ups-spam
Apr 20, 2015 - "Subjects Seen
Status update for tracking# 25768265
Typical e-mail details:
Dear customer,
Unfortunately we were not able to deliver the package sent to you on 29 Nov 2014 because your delivery address does not exist.
Please download and print out the following shipping invoice and collect your package at the nearest UPS office :
wwwapps .ups. com/WebTracking/track.aspx?trk=25768265&action=download_pdf_invoice
Thank you for choosing UPS
Malicious URLs
baloomedia .com/wp-content/plugins/cached_data/label_0420.zip
Malicious File Name and MD5:
label_420.pif (ed9b821c16763450cc8e807528030bc4)
Tagged: UPS, Dyreza
176.126.200.42: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
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Fiesta EK spreads Crypto-Ransomware ...
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...o-is-affected/
Apr 20 2015 - "... no great surprise to see the Fiesta exploit kit being used to deliver crypto-ransomware. The choice of exploits delivered is broadly in line with other exploit kits. Flash, Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader/Acrobat, and Silverlight are all targeted:
Exploits used by Fiesta:
> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...ta-crypto9.png
... after March 19, we noticed a -change- in the malware payloads delivered to victims. Before that date, crypto-ransomware was being delivered to end users. Aside from encrypting the user’s files, this particular variant terminates some running processes (Process Explorer, Task Manager, the Command Prompt, Regedit, and Msconfig) so that it cannot be terminated by the user easily:
Screenshot of crypto-ransomware:
> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...ta-crypto2.png
After March 19, Fiesta served up a threat best known from previous years: fake antivirus. Again, it disables some common system tools such as Task Manager, Process Explorer, and Internet Explorer, so that this -fake- antivirus cannot be easily shut down. It’s not clear why the attackers chose to return to this older kind of threat:
Screenshot of fake antivirus:
> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...ta-crypto3.png
... Best practices: The first step to -defend- against these attacks is: keep software up-to-date. By removing the vulnerabilities that an exploit kit targets, users can prevent themselves from becoming the next victims of these attacks..."
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'E-Ticket', 'invoice', 'Admin Exchange' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'E-Ticket' SPAM – javascript malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/e-tick...cript-malware/
21 Apr 2015 - "'E-Ticket 7694892' pretending to come from E-Ticket <online@ ticket .com> with a link to a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
This is your e-ticket receipt.
SEAT / 30A/ZONE 3
DATE / TIME 7 MAY, 2014, 09:19 AM
ARRIVING / Tulsa
ST / OK
REF / KE.7818 BAG / 4PC
TOTAL PRICE / 438.16 USD
FORM OF PAYMENT / CC
Download E-Ticket 7694892
Yours sincerely,
American Airlines E-Ticket services.
21 April 2015: E-Ticket 7694892.zip: Extracts to: E-Ticket 7694892.js
Current Virus total detections: 9/57* ... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1429584330/
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Fake 'invoice' SPAM - malicious doc attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...e-i413136.html
21 Apr 2015 - "This spam email does not come from LA Grinding but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.
From: Lichelle Ebner [mailto:Lichelle5938@ lagrinding .co .uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 9:55 AM
Subject: LAG invoice I413136
Dear Accounts Payable,
Attached is a copy of invoice I413136 .The items were shipped. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or cannot read the attachment.
Thank you for your business.
Sincerely,
Lichelle Ebner
L. A. Grinding Company
Ph. (818) 846-9134
FAX (818)846-1786
So far I have seen just a single sample with an attachment I413136.doc which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/57* and which contains this malicious macro... in turn this downloads a component from:
http ://eternitymobiles .com/25/144.exe
..although there are probably different versions of the macro with different download locations, the binary itself should be the same in all cases. This is saved as %TEMP%\pierre6.exe and it has a detection rate of 5/56**. Automated analysis tools... show that it attempts to communicate with a familiar IP:
89.28.83.228 (StarNet SLR, Moldova)
According to this Malwr report it also drops a malicious Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 3/56***.
Recommended blocklist:
89.28.83.228 ..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1429609465/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429609471/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1429610872/
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Fake 'Admin Exchange' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/admini...e-pdf-malware/
21 Apr 2015 - "'Administrator – Exchange Email id3405629' pretending to come from Administrator@ no-reply <Administrator@ your domain > with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
no-reply,
This attachment provides you with managing facilities for your mailboxes, public folders, distribution lists, contact and mail service general settings. Please save the attached file to your hard drive before deleting this message.
To open the attachment (Exchange_id3405629.zip) please use the following password: Ujh6JZ2mHN
Thank you,
Administrator
Note: the address it pretends to come from will be your own email domain and the link in the email will appear to be your own web site or domain.
21 April 2015: Exchange_id3405629.zip: Extracts to: Exchange.exe
Current Virus total detections: 1/54* NOTE: we are also seeing the same malware payload coming in as a -fake- fax, and with the subject of Internal ONLY . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1429610427/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...nistrator-spam
Apr 21, 2015
Tagged: Exchange, Dyreza
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Fake 'new my info' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/new-my...e-pdf-malware/
21 Apr 2015 - "'new my info' pretending to come from random names and email addresses with a zip attachment that is named after the alleged sender is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Hello! I have found some interesting information that you might need!
Check out the attached file!
Bicicletes Nadal Oliver, S.L.
Passeig Ferrocarril, 61
07500 Manacor (Mallorca)
Illes Balears
Tel.971-843358 ...
21 April 2015: warehouseop02.zip: Extracts to: Alla.exe
Current Virus total detections: 3/56* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1429618876/
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Dridex re-directing to Malicious Dropbox hosted file via Google
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19609
2015-04-21 - "... this malware may use Google Analytics to count how many people opened the file, but I haven't confirmed that. Google -redirects- are however used to obscure the destination... Google will show a note that the user was redirected, but the file will download right away. It will not open, and the user will have to open it to enable the Macro to execute (DON'T)... Word document... example I received:
> https://isc.sans.edu/diaryimages/ima...26_43%20AM.png
... Virustotal only shows 4 "hits" out of 57* AV tools tested for this binary:
(More detail at the ISC URL above.)
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1429631351/
File name: ACH transaction0336.doc
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'voice message', 'Invoice', 'New document', IRS SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'voice message' SPAM – fake wav malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/voipfo...e-wav-malware/
22 Apr 2015 - "New voice message in mailbox' pretending to come from Voipfone Voicemail <voicemail@ voipfone .co .uk> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...in-mailbox.png
22 April 2015: WAV0004291.wav.zip: Extracts to: WAV0004291.wav.exe
Current Virus total detections: 3/52* . This 'New voice message in mailbox' is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper wav ( sound) file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1429691927/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/new-in...sheet-malware/
22 Apr 2015 - "'New Invoice ID:SI19779D' from [random company] pretending to come from [random name] using random names at random email addresses with a link to a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...wave_email.png
Note: I received this as a bounced return to thespykiller. I can categorically state that it was never sent from thespykiller domain. The bad guys -spoof- email addresses to pretend to send from all the time. 99.9% of the time the alleged sending domain has -never- been hacked and they just pretend to send from that domain. I have since received several different versions from loads of random companies. The invoice number is also random is all cases.
22 April 2015 : SI19779D.docm - Current Virus total detections: 0/55*
So far I am only seeing 1 version of this malware... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429707780/
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HSBC Payment Advice Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...nt-advice-spam
Apr 22, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
Payment Advice - Advice Ref:[GB007112] / CHAPS credits
Typical e-mail details:
Sir/Madam,
Please download document from server, payment advice is issued at the request of our customer. The advice is for your reference only.
Download link:
bilbaopisos .es/HSBC_BANK-DATA/new_secure.html
Yours faithfully,
Global Payments and Cash Management
HSBC
Malicious URLs
bilbaopisos .es/HSBC_BANK-DATA/new_secure.html
Malicious File Name and MD5:
new_secure_payment.exe (c290126e419ff58678c3e490d89d7343)
Screenshot: https://41.media.tumblr.com/bcff8fce...r6pupn_500.png
Tagged: HSBC, Upatre
bilbaopisos .es: 216.119.143.194: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/04/23/url-...us-javascript/
Apr 23, 2015
wadv.com .br: 54.191.242.215: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/ba...ac0b/analysis/
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Fake 'New document' SPAM - malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...ment-with.html
22 Apr 2015 - "I have only seen one sample of this -spam- so far, it is likely that other variants use different company names:
From: Tamika Cortez
Date: 22 April 2015 at 14:33
Subject: New document with ID:G27427P from RESTAURANT GROUP PLC was generated
New report with ID:G27427P was generated by our system. Please follow the link below to get your report.
Download report ID:G27427P
Best regards ,Tamika Cortez
RESTAURANT GROUP PLC
In this case, the link in the email goes to: http ://igruv.tourstogo .us/oalroshimt/fokreeshoo/thovoaksij?arg1=victim@victimdomain.com&arg2=G27427P.vbs&arg3=RESTAURANT%20GROUP%20PLC
..which includes the -victim's- email address in the URL. In turn, this -redirects- to:
http ://igruv.tourstogo .us/oalroshimt/fokreeshoo/thovoaksij/files/G27427P.vbs
As the name suggests, this is a VBScript (VT 1/56*), in this case it is lightly obfuscated... and it initiates a download from:
http ://185.91.175.183/ sas/evzxce.exe
..which is saved as %TEMP%\jhvwrvcf.exe. The download location is 176.31.28.226 (OVH, France). This file has a VirusTotal detection rate of 6/57**. Automated analysis tools... show network connections to the following IPs:
144.76.73.3 (Hetzner, Germany)
5.44.216.44 (Camelhost SIA, Latvia)
62.210.214.249 (Iliad Entreprises / Poney Telecom, France)
89.184.66.18 (Invest Ltd, Ukraine)
... it drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 3/57***.
Recommended blocklist:
176.31.28.226
144.76.73.3
5.44.216.44
62.210.214.249
89.184.66.18 ..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1429710473/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1429710529/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429711770/
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IRS Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...79123/irs-spam
Apr 21, 2015 - "Subjects Seen
Your FED TAX payment (ID:X3ZIRS507273813) was Rejected
Typical e-mail details:
*** PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL ***
Your federal Tax payment (ID: X3ZIRS507273813), recently sent from your checking account was returned by the your financial institution.
For more information, please download attached notification. (Security Adobe PDF file)
Transaction Number: X3ZIRS507273813}
Payment Amount: $ 5478.41
Transaction status: Rejected
ACH Trace Number: 8888888888
Transaction Type: ACH Debit Payment-DDA
Internal Revenue Service
Metro Plex 1, 8401 Corporate Drive, Suite 300, Landover, MD 20785.
Malicious File Name and MD5:
FEDERAL_tax_notify.exe (344afdc58ad6d110f1b3f8dbdbb86576)
Screenshot: https://40.media.tumblr.com/18d2466d...r6pupn_500.png
Tagged: IRS, Ruckgov
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Refund on Order', 'Annual report' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Refund on Order' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/refund...sheet-malware/
23 Apr 2015 - "'Refund on order 204-2374256-3787503' pretending to come from Amazon .co.uk <payments-messages@ amazon .co.uk> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...56-3787503.png
23 April 2015 : 204-2374256-3787503-credit-note.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/54*
... the malicious macro inside this example downloads myshland .com/42/335.exe which is saved and run as %Temp%\pierre5.exe (Virus Total**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1429773545/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f...is/1429775442/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...order-204.html
23 Apr 2015
... Recommended blocklist:
185.12.95.191
87.236.215.151
94.23.171.198
185.35.77.250
149.154.64.70 ..."
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Fake 'Annual report' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/annual...e-pdf-malware/
23 Apr 2015 - "'Annual report' pretending to come from olivia <olivia@ cdc .co.uk> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...The email looks like:
Hi,
Annual report sent to you, maybe yours.
CDC Consulting
Algyr le parc
119 BL de la Bataille de Stalingrad
69100 Villeurbanne
23 April 2015: Annual report.zip: Extracts to: Luk22.exe
Current Virus total detections: 4/56* . This Annual report is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429792521/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
23.253.254.67: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
81.7.109.65: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
95.80.123.41: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...al-report-spam
Apr 23, 2015
Tagged: Annual Report, Upatre, Dyreza
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eFax Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...9183/efax-spam
Apr 23, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
You have a new eFax from 977-374-7446 - 4 pages
Typical e-mail details:
eFax Message [Caller-ID: 977-374-7446]
You have received a 3 pages fax on Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:20:40 -0600 .
You can view your eFax online, in PDF format, by visiting :
efax .com/documents/view_fax.aspx?utm_source=eFax&fax_type=doc&caller_id=977-374-7446
* This fax’s reference # is 50184025
Malicious URLs
91.194.254.239/fax_33663232.pdf.zip
Malicious File Name and MD5:
pdf_fax_33663232.pif (fe6e9444534f34f735fa94eb7c526207)
Screenshot: https://36.media.tumblr.com/b8f64613...r6pupn_500.png
91.194.254.239: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
Tagged: eFax, Dyreza
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'Invoice', 'Western Order', 'You win green card' SPAM, Fileless Malware
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - malicious PDF attachment
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...x-pdf-malware/
24 Apr 2015 - "'Invoice 519658' pretending to come from Colin Fox <colin@nofss .co .uk> with a PDF attachment is another one from the current bot runs... This email contains a genuine PDF which has embedded -scripts- that will infect you. So far none of the automatic analysis tools can find any malicious content but it is trying to send multicast messages... this evil pdf when opened in Adobe reader drops a word document containing macros, so DO NOT SAVE OR OPEN THIS PDF FILE: Just -delete- the email and any attachment as soon as it appears in your inbox. There appear to be several different versions of the PDF malware dropper although all are named the same and every copy that I have seen is the same file size (23kb) The malicious Macro inside the dropped word document (VirusTotal*) from one of the malicious PDF downloads and executes -> http ://bepminhchi .com/83/61.exe (virus total**)... Adobe reader in recent versions has 'Protected view' automatically -enabled- and unless you press the button to enable all features, you will be safe from this attack...
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ected-view.png
If you do enable all features, then you have a second chance to protect yourself, by pressing either cancel or never allow opening files of this type on the pop up warning. Pressing allow WILL almost certainly automatically open the word doc and run the malicious macro so infecting you. Make sure Adobe reader ( or any other PDF reader software) is updated to the -latest- version to protect you. Older versions are vulnerable to these attacks. If using Adobe make sure you -uncheck- any additional offerings of security scans/Google chrome or toolbars that it wants to include in the download:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...15/04/doc4.png
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ice-519658.png
24 April 2015: Sales Invoice 519658.pdf - Current Virus total detections: 2/57***
... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1429860267/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1429860321/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
185.12.95.191: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1429858901/
bepminhchi .com: 115.146.126.39: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...nofsscouk.html
24 Apr 2015
... Recommended blocklist:
185.12.95.191
149.154.64.70
78.24.218.186
89.28.83.228 "
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Fake 'Western Order' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...ell-nigel.html
24 Apr 2015 - "The spam email is not from SSE Contracting, but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:
Screenshot: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VMHqpJpfh...enterprise.png
So far I have only seen one sample Western Order.doc [VT 4/57*] which contains a malicious macro... which is functionally identical to the one used in this spam run** which was also happening this morning."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1429871852/
** http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...nofsscouk.html
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wester...sheet-malware/
24 Apr 2015
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...tern-Order.png
"... same dridex malware that was dropped by today’s earlier malware run 'Invoice 519658 Colin Fox' – PDF malware*..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...x-pdf-malware/
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Fake 'invoice for car repairs' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...e-pdf-malware/
24 Apr 2015 - "'invoice for car #' random numbers coming from random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
hi,
The invoice for car repairs.
Gruss, Claus
Claus Leykauf
Galgengasse 14
91257 Pegnitz
Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 9241 724785
fax: +49 (0) 9241 724786
mobile: +49 (0) 172 8801123 ...
24 April 2015: ed0j5av43xs04bk #19641661.zip: Extracts to: car-repairs.exe
Current Virus total detections: 0/58* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1429872340/
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Fake 'You win green card' – malware attachment
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/you-wi...-card-malware/
24 Apr 2015 - "'You win green card' pretending to come from USA Green > <random email addresses> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Your requested report is attached here. USA.
24 April 2015: green_card_usa_483273289748923749823798.zip: Extracts to: green_card_usa_483273289748923749823798.exe
Current Virus total detections: 5/56* ... This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1429873777/
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Fileless Malware ...
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...d-in-the-wild/
Updated April 22, 2015 - "... It’s no longer enough for malware to rely on dropping copies of themselves to a location specified in the malware code and using persistence tactics like setting up an autostart feature to ensure that they continue to run. Security file scanners can easily block and detect these threats. A tactic we have spotted would be using fileless malware. Unlike most malware, fileless malware hides itself in locations that are difficult to scan or detect. Fileless malware exists only in memory and is written directly to RAM of being installed in target computer’s hard drive. POWELIKS* is an example of fileless malware that is able to hide its malicious code in the Windows Registry. These use a conventional malware file to add the entries with its malicious code in the registry... Another example of fileless malware is “Phasebot,” which we found being peddled in websites that sell malware and other malicious online tools by the supposed malware creator. We detect Phasebot as TROJ_PHASE.A. Phasebot contains -both- rootkit and fileless execution capabilities. We noticed that this malware had the same features as Solarbot**, an old bot that was first seen in the wild around late 2013. This is made more evident when we compared the sites that sold the two malware(s)... Compared to Solarbot, Phasebot places a distinct emphasis on stealth and evasion mechanisms. It -encrypts- its communications to its C&C server by using random passwords each time it connects to the server. The malware was designed to check if the following programs are installed in the affected system:
.NET Framework Version 3.5
Windows PowerShell
... Both of these programs are integrated into current versions of Windows. After verifying that the affected system have these programs, Phasebot creates the following registry key where the encrypted shell code will be written:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{Bot GUID}
... Using Windows PowerShell can also be seen as strategic because this tool is included in the initial installation packages of Windows OS versions 7 and higher. And since more users have computers that run on Windows 7 and higher, cybercriminals have a bigger net of potential victims. (And not coincidentally, the targeted .NET framework version 3.5 is also found in Windows 7 and higher)... It’s highly possible that they will not limit themselves to simply using the Windows registry to hide their malware... The emergence of fileless malware can be a serious threat to users who are not familiar with this type of infection. Users are often advised to look for suspicious files or folders, but -not- in places like the Windows registry, which is used for fileless infection... Because fileless malware are hard to detect, they’re also difficult to remove. Much like rootkits, the location of the malware makes detection and deletion more difficult than the typical malware infection..."
* https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/...ROJ_POWELIKS.A
** http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com...ans-share-dna/
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Fake 'Invoice', 'Hello' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...m-invoice.html
27 Apr 2015 - "This fake invoice email does -not- come from Booking .com but is a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.
From: invoice@ booking .com
Date: 27 April 2015 at 08:55
Subject: [1138593] Booking.com Invoice 01/03/2015 - 31/03/2015
Dear customer,
Herewith you receive the electronic invoice regarding the commissions for the period from 01/03/2015 to 31/03/2015.
If you have any questions, please contact our Credit Control Department at telephone number
+44 (0)208 612 8210 (e-mail: ).
Thank you for working with Booking .com.
The only sample I have seen of this is badly mangled and required some work to extract and decode the attachment invoice-1501383360.doc which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/57*. This contains a malicious macro... which downloads a component from the following location:
http ://voipconcerns .com/62/927.exe
There are probably other slightly different versions of the Word document that download from different locations, however the binary will be the same. This malicious executable is saved as %TEMP%\zigma2.5.exe and has a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/57**. Automated analysis tools... show an attempted network connection to:
185.12.95.191 (RuWeb CJSC, Russia)
According to the Malwr report it also drops a malicious Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 4/57***..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1430122282/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1430122455/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1430123480/
185.12.95.191: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
voipconcerns .com: 174.37.237.228: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/113859...sheet-malware/
27 April 2015 - " invoice-1501383360.doc - Current Virus total detections: 3/56*
... which connects to and downloads tom-lebaric .com/62/927.exe which is saved as %Temp%\zigma2.4.exe and automatically run ( VirusTotal*)..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1430121196/
tom-lebaric .com: 176.223.208.22: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
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Fake 'Hello' SPAM - malware attached
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/hello-...e-pdf-malware/
27 Apr 2015 - "An email saying 'Hello! Can you please check the Attachment that I have sent? I need your help' with the subject of 'HI your name@ your domain' coming from random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...The email looks like:
Hello! Can you please check the Attachment that I have sent? I need your help.
Thanks
Rob Robichaud
Hub City Auto Paints and Supplies Ltd.
A Division of Autochoice Parts & Paints
CSR
153 Loftus St
Moncton, NB ...
Each email has a random named attachment that is named after your email address. All extract to different named files with different #
27 April 2015: derek- #52256657.zip: Extracts to: LOG.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1430135783/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
176.106.122.31: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
UDP communications
191.233.81.105: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
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Fake 'Your account #513457796162 has been blocked' SPAM – malware attachment
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/paulet...ocked-malware/
27 April 2015 - "'Your account #513457796162 has been blocked' pretending to come from Pauletta Stile with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Your account #513457796162 was blocked for violation of our TOS.
Please see attached.
Pauletta Stile
Langenbacherstr. 25 57586 Weitefeld
GERMANY
+49 2743 80 70
Weitefeld
+49 2743 00 03 56
I have only received 1 copy of this malware so far. The last time a similar one was spammed out, we saw them coming form random email addresses with random subject numbers and attachment numbers.
27 April 2015: 513457796162.zip: Extracts to: 513457796162.scr
Current Virus total detections: 1/31*. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like an Excel spreadsheet instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1430140877/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...t-blocked-spam
April 27, 2015
Tagged: Account Blocked, dalexis
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Incoming Fax Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...oming-fax-spam
Apr 27, 2015 - "Subjects Seen
Incoming Fax
Typical e-mail details:
INCOMING FAX REPORT
*********************************************************
Date/Time: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:08:50 -0800
Speed: 4985bps
Connection time: 05:08
Pages: 5
Resolution: Normal
Remote ID: 638-493-5566
Line number: 9
DTMF/DID:
Description: Internal only
To download / view please download attached file
*********************************************************
Malicious File Name and MD5:
IncomingFax.exe (784f8d6818cd23dd18c8f059a6b5d3d5)
Screenshot: https://40.media.tumblr.com/ab71c252...r6pupn_500.png
Tagged: Fax, Dyreza
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Fake 'Invoice 215042210' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
27 Apr 2015 - "'Invoice 215042210 from FRONT RANGE WHOLESALE RESTAURANT SUPPLIES INC.' pretending to come from “FRONT RANGE WHOLESALE RESTAURANT SUPPLIES INC.” <replyTo@ quickbooks .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear Customer :
Your invoice is attached. Please remit payment at your earliest
convenience.
Thank you for your business – we appreciate it very much.
Sincerely,
FRONT RANGE WHOLESALE RESTAURANT SUPPLIES INC.
27 April 2015 : Inv_215042210_from_FRONT_RANGE_WHOLESALE_RESTAURANT_SUPPLIES_INC._5316.doc
Current Virus total detections: 2/57* which connects to and downloads 91.194.254.240 /us274/file.exe which in turn is saved as %Temp%\rramcgaq.exe and automatically runs... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1430143720/
91.194.254.240: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
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Fake 'Privacy Policy', 'INVOICE PD' SPAM, Fiesta EK
FYI...
Fake 'Privacy Policy' SPAM – malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/re-hel...utors-malware/
28 April 2015 - "An email in garbled English about a database of contributors and their Privacy Policy with a subject of 'RE: Hello' pretending to come from Chanda <faucibus.id@ aliquet .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Hello!
Dear user! We consider a database of contributors and we found that we have signed with you our “Privacy Policy” and that we have an updated CV. We will be audited in the near future, and we need to update the record. For this reason, is attached to this e-mail confidentiality agreement that we pray thee firm and return them by email or fax as soon as possible. We also need you, please send us your resume updated for inclusion in the database. If you have any questions, please contact me.
With great respect !
28 April 2015: Privacy Policy.zip: Extracts to: Privacy Policy.doc.scr
Current Virus total detections: 6/56* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will pretend to be a word doc instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1430201347/
... Behavioural information
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'INVOICE PD' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...will-comm.html
28 April 2015 - "This malicious spam does not come from Will Communications but is instead a simple -forgery- with a malicious attachment.
From: richard will [contactwill@ hotmail .com]
Date: 28 April 2015 at 09:05
Subject: INVOICE PD Will Comm
Thank-you for your payment!
Richard Will
Will Communications, Inc.
richard@ willcommunications .com
The samples that I have seen are all corrupted, and the malicious attachment just appears as a jumble of Base 64 encoded text, although this may not be the case with every email. After extraction, the malicious Word document has a detection rate of 4/56* and it contains this malicious macro... In this case, the macro downloads a component from:
http ://massachusettsselfstorage .com/62/927.exe
..this is saved as %TEMP%\johan3.2.b.exe and has a detection rate of 3/53**. There may well be other documents that download from -other- locations, but the binary will be the same in all cases. Automated analysis tools... show that it attempts to communicate with the following IP:
185.12.95.191 (RuWeb CJSC, Russia)
According the the Malwr report it drops a malicious Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 2/56***."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1430209748/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1430209765/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1430210575/
massachusettsselfstorage .com: 209.114.42.129: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
28 April 2015 : Orion_PD_INV_12138.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/54* downloads & executes http ://muebleseviajan .com/62/927.exe ..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1430207999/
muebleseviajan .com: 185.14.56.96: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
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Bad Actor using Fiesta exploit kit
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19631
2015-04-28 - "... a criminal group using the Fiesta exploit kit (EK) to infect Windows computers... The group is currently using a gate that generates traffic from compromised websites to a Fiesta EK domain. I'm calling this group the "BizCN gate actor" because all its gate domains are registered through Chinese registrar www .bizcn .com, and they all reside on a -single- IP address... Earlier this month, the BizCN gate actor changed its gate IP to 136.243.227.9 [3]. We're currently seeing the gate lead to Fiesta EK on 205.234.186.114. Below is a flow chart for the infection chain:
> https://isc.sans.edu/diaryimages/ima...y-image-01.jpg
... Passive DNS on 136.243.227.9 shows at least 100 domains registered through www .bizcn .com hosted on this IP address. Each domain is paired with a -compromised- website... Since their information is now public through this diary entry, the actor will likely change the gate's IP address and domains again. Unless there's a drastic change in their pattern of operations, this BizCN gate actor will be found relatively soon after any upcoming changes..."
3] http://urlquery.net/search.php?q=136.243.227.9
205.234.186.114: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
136.243.227.9: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
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Fake 'NatWest' SPAM – chm malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/natwes...3-chm-malware/
28 Apr 2015 - "'NatWest Secure Message' pretending to come from NatWest .co.uk <secure.message@ natwest .com> with a zip attachment that extracts to a malicious chm (windows help file) is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
You have received a secure message.
Read your secure message by opening the attachment, SecureMessage.zip. You will be prompted to open (view) the file or save (download) it to your computer. For best results, save the file first, then open it.
If you have concerns about the validity of this message, please contact the sender directly. For questions please contact the NatWest Bank Secure Email Help Desk at 0131 556 3532.
First time users – will need to register after opening the attachment...
There is also a separate set of emails being spammed out with the -same- malware attachment with a subject of 'JP Morgan Access Secure Message' pretending to come from JP Morgan Access <service@ jpmorgan .com>...
Please check attached file(s) for your latest account documents regarding your online account.
Russel Whitlock
Level III Account Management Officer
817-267-1542 office
817-573-8940 cell
Russel.Whitlock@ jpmorgan .com
Investments in securities and insurance products are:
NOT FDIC-INSURED/NO BANK-GUARANTEES/MAY LOSE VALUE
2015 JPMorgan Chase & Co...
All of these use random names at the relevant banks...
Update: there is a second set of these being spammed out with a plain chm attachment that is -not- inside a zip. Outlook (and some other email clients) block chm files by default so you will be protected from automatically opening or running this.
Todays Date: SecureMessage.zip: Extracts to: SecureMessage.chm
Current Virus total detections: 1/53* . The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1430217439/
SecureMessage.chm
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Fake 'BACS payment' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/sales-...e-pdf-malware/
28 Apr 2015 - "An email saying 'Please find downloaded notification of your BACS payment from Essex County Council' with a subject of 'Hello (your email address)' pretending to come from sales with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please find downloaded notification of your BACS payment from Essex County Council.
If you require further information please refer to the contact details in the attached document.
BACS Remittance Advice generated automatically by 2e2 on behalf of Essex County Council.
Paramat 60
85 rue des jacobins
60740 Saint maximin
Tel : 03.44.66.03.47
28 April 2015: Random Attachment zip name: Extracts to: INVOICE.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/56* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1430219199/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
166.78.246.145: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
81.7.109.65: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
188.255.252.242: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
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Fake 'Email Locked' SPAM - contains trojan
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/04/28/emai...ntains-trojan/
Apr 28, 2015 - "... intercepted a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subject “[Issue 243061763D7F320] Account #735811402519 Temporarily Locked”. Different spoofed addresses are used a from email address and with each email, the content and the attached trojan is -different- to avoid detection by virus engines. Some examples:
Dear user,
We detect unauthorized Login Attempts to your ID #735811402519 from other IP Address.
Please re-confirm your identity. See attached docs for full information.
Evie Maccarter
King Yvonne M Dr
70 Exhibition Street, Kentville, NS B4N 4K9
CANADA
902-602-7131
The attached file 735811402519.zip contains the 102 kB large file 735811402519.scr. The trojan is known as UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic, Heur.I or Trojan.Win32.Qudamah.Gen.3. At the time of writing, 3 of the 57 AV engines did detect the trojan at Virus Total*..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1430215524/
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Scammy Nepal earthquake donation requests
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19635
2015-04-28 - "... like after every major hurricane or earthquake, the miscreants around the globe are currently scurrying to set up their -fake- charities and web pages, in order to solicit donations. The people of Nepal certainly can use our help and generosity to deal with the aftermath of the April 25 earthquake, but let's make sure the money actually ends up there. For our readers in the US, USAID.gov maintains a list of charities that they work with in Nepal at http://www.usaid.gov/nepal-earthquake .. but note how even USAID adds a disclaimer to be on the lookout for scams!..."
:fear: :mad:
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Fake 'pictures', 'BACS payment' SPAM, JavaScript malware
FYI...
Fake 'pictures' SPAM - malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/here-a...tures-malware/
29 Apr 2015 - "An email saying 'Here are some pictures' with a subject of 'RE: Hello' coming from random names and email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Hello!
Here are some pictures !!
See you later!
29 April 2015: in_my_home.zip: Extracts to: in_my_home.scr
Current Virus total detections: 7/55*. Automatic analysis at MALWR show it to be a Zeus banking Trojan. Creates a windows hook that monitors keyboard input (keylogger), creates Zeus (Banking Trojan) mutexes, mutex: MPSWabDataAccessMutex, creates an Alternate Data Stream (ADS) file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\commtui2.exe:Zone.Identifier, Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1430289254/
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JavaScript malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/javascript-malware/
29 Apr 2015 - "JavaScript malware is a different way of spreading malware. We have been seeing a steady increase in a different form of malware spreading. The bad guys are sending javascript files inside a zip or at the end of a link. We have seen several different email templates for this method ranging from:
- E-Ticket 7694892 pretending to come from E-Ticket <online@ ticket .com>
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/e-tick...cript-malware/
- Order 595775 which contains a simple email reading something like “Good Day! Find Order 595775 attached Thank you Jim Olsen” These also come in as -fake- invoices with random numbers and random names and senders. You normally find the name in body of email matches the name of the alleged sender.
These particular js files (JavaScript malware) download & install a cryptowall 3.0 malware which will encrypt all your files on the computer and prevent access to them. There is absolutely -no- fix once you are infected so it is essential to have a full working backup and make sure it is stored off the computer. These cryptowall Trojans are -network- aware and will -encrypt- -all- -network- disks and external hard discs as well as the computer hard disc.
All the alleged senders, companies, names of employees and phone numbers mentioned in the emails are all innocent and are just picked at random. Some of these companies will exist and some won’t. -Don’t- try to respond by phone or email, all you will do is end up with an innocent person or company who have had their details spoofed and picked at random from a long list that the bad guys have previously found. The bad guys choose companies, Government departments and organisations with subjects that are designed to entice you or alarm you into blindly opening the attachment or clicking-the-link in the email to see what is happening... The basic rule is NEVER open -any- attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
- http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/cryptowall-3-0
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Fake 'HBSC credit' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/new-cr...e-pdf-malware/
29 Apr 2015 - "'New credit terms from HSBC' coming from random names at random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you that our bank is ready to offer you a bank loan.
We would like to ask you to open the Attachment to this letter and read the terms.
Yours faithfully,
Global Payments and Cash Management
HSBC
29 April 2015: mail2.zip: Extracts to: Payment.exe
Current Virus total detections: 1/56*. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1430307499/
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Fake 'BACS payment' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/sales-...e-pdf-malware/
28 Apr 2015 - "An email saying 'Please find downloaded notification of your BACS payment from Essex County Council' with a subject of 'Hello (your email address)' pretending to come from sales with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please find downloaded notification of your BACS payment from Essex County Council.
If you require further information please refer to the contact details in the attached document.
BACS Remittance Advice generated automatically by 2e2 on behalf of Essex County Council.
Paramat 60
85 rue des jacobins
60740 Saint maximin
Tel : 03.44.66.03.47
28 April 2015: Random Attachment zip name: Extracts to: INVOICE.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/56*. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1430219199/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
166.78.246.145: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
81.7.109.65: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
188.255.252.242: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
UDP communications
23.102.23.44: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
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Incoming MMS Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...oming-mms-spam
Apr 29, 2015 - "Subjects Seen
Incoming mms from +07452136643
Typical e-mail details:
No.: +07452136643
Size: 8971
ID: OHB.45598A07E.7385
Filename: OHB.45598A07E.7385.cab
Billie Souto
Malicious File Name and MD5:
OHB.45598A07E.7385.scr (d2843ca1919e48c16c98673210e0c3d2)
Screenshot: https://41.media.tumblr.com/bc77a632...r6pupn_500.png
Tagged: MMS, ctb locker
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Fake Chinese domain SCAMs
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/cnwe...ycom-scam.html
29 Apr 2015 - "This spam email is actually part of a long-running Chinese scam.
From: Jim Bing [jim.bing@ cnwebregistry .cn]
Date: 29 April 2015 at 14:27
Subject: Re:"[redacted]"
Dear CEO,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent, Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China.
We received an application from Huayu Ltd on April 27, 2015. They want to register " [redacted] " as their Internet Keyword and " [redacted] .cn "、" [redacted] .com.cn " 、" [redacted] .net.cn "、" [redacted] .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find " [redacted] " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Whoever "Huayu Ltd" are is irrelevant, as they aren't actually interested in registering these domains, even if they exist. Instead, this is an attempt by a -rogue- Chinese domain registrar to get you to buy -overpriced- and -worthless- domains. In this case the spam mentions the domain cnwebregistry .cn, but chinaygregistry .com is also on the same server and will be similarly fraudulent. This video I made a while ago explains the scam in more detail..."
(Video @ the dynamoo URL above.)
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Fake 'Telephone order', 'Statement', 'Amended Invoice' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Telephone order' SPAM - malicious doc attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/04/malw...mcdonnell.html
30 Apr 2015 - "This fake financial email is not from Gas Cylinders UK but is instead a simple -forgery- with a malicious attachment.
From: Rebecca McDonnell [rebecca@ gascylindersuk .co .uk]
Date: 30 April 2015 at 09:54
Subject: Telephone order form
Telephone order form attached
Regards,
Rebecca McDonnell
Business Administrator
340a Haydock Lane, Haydock Industrial Estate,
St Helens, Merseyside, WA11 9UY
DDI: 01744 304338
Fax: 01942 275 312 ...
There is a malicious Word document attached with the name TELEPHONE PURCHASE ORDER FORM.doc which probably comes in a few different variants, but the one I saw had a VirusTotal detection rate of 4/56* and contained this malicious macro... which downloaded a component from the following location:
http ://morristonrfcmalechoir .org/143/368.exe
This is saved as %TEMP%\serebok2.exe and has detection rate of 8/56**. Analysis tools are a bit patchy today, but the VirusTotal report indicates traffic to:
212.227.89.182 (1&1, Germany)
The Malwr report reported a dropped Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 3/55***."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1430390792/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1430390534/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1430392218/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/teleph...sheet-malware/
30 Apr 2015
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...order-form.png
30 April 2015 : TELEPHONE PURCHASE ORDER FORM.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/55*
... which downloads and runs nishatdairy .com/143/368.exe which is saved as %Temp%\serebok3.exe and autoruns (virus Total**)..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1430379008/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1430379609/
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Fake 'Statement' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/statem...e-pdf-malware/
30 Apr 2015 - "'Statement of Account 5905779365764954' (random number) coming from random names and email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...9365764954.png
30 April 2015 : random name : Extracts to: statement.exe | Account_info.exe | Docs_23131445.exe
Current Virus total detections: 1/55* |1/55** | 1/55*** . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1430384002/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1430384014/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1430384178/
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Fake 'Amended Invoice' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/attach...sheet-malware/
30 Apr 2015 - "'Attached Amended Invoice 115784 Re D/N 103674. 9/4/15' pretending to come from accounts@ procterscheeses .co.uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email body is totally -blank-. This contains exactly the -same- malware as today’s earlier spam run of malicious word docs Telephone order form – Rebecca McDonnell — word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware*... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/teleph...sheet-malware/
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Nepal Earthquake Disaster - Email Scams
- https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current...er-Email-Scams
April 30, 2015 - "... potential email scams regarding the earthquake in Nepal. The scam emails may contain links or attachments that may direct users to phishing or malware infected websites. Phishing emails and websites requesting donations for -fraudulent- charitable organizations commonly appear after these types of natural disasters..."
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Fake 'Invoice', 'Claims' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware attached
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/berend...sheet-malware/
1 May 2015 - "'Berendsen UK Ltd Invoice 60022446 344' pretending to come from donotreply@ berendsen .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...022446-344.png
1 May 2015 : IRN001610_60022446_I_01_01.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/56*
... which connects to & download laurelwoodvirginia .com/654/46.exe which is saved as %temp%\serebok5.exe and -autorun- on your computer (virus Total**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1430472222/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1430476073/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
212.227.89.182: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
laurelwoodvirginia .com: 66.175.58.9: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
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Fake 'Claim' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/copy-o...sheet-malware/
1 May 2015 - "'Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref: [random numbers] from [random companies]' coming from random names and email addresses with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like this, but be aware that every email will have a -different- random claim number and -different- company listed as the claimant:
SOVEREIGN MINES OF AFRICA PLC has issued the claim against you and passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[EK8013GUH].The claim was read, and passed to the second reading. For these or other notarial acts, or the legalising of documents, please contact SOVEREIGN MINES OF AFRICA PLC as soon as posible.
So far I have seen:
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[EK8013GUH] from SOVEREIGN MINES OF AFRICA PLC
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[UK1751MQV] from FALKLAND OIL & GAS
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[EI6841DHZ] from BREEDON AGGREGATES LTD
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[BB1620VDT] from WILLIAM HILL PLC
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[FZ8349DFN] from GAZPROM OAO
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[WY4077WQJ] from Hardy Amies Ltd
- Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:[GX0331SJB] from Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners
25 February 2015 : EI6841DHZ.doc | EK8013GUH.doc | UK1751MQV.doc
Current Virus total detections: 0/56* | 0/56** | 0/56***
... at least one of these macros downloads from pastebin .com/download.php?i=XEKaxHCg and verifed. acgfamilyoffices. com/ebn/logo.jpg (so far I have not been able to get the content but am still trying)..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1430477322/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1430477337/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1430477346/
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/05/01/emai...ous-word-file/
May 1, 2015
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1430480904/
File name: ZI2444LQN.doc
Detection ratio: 0/56
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Fake 'Delivery confirmation' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/delive...sheet-malware/
1 May 2015 - "'Delivery confirmation form for purchase BW91149JYA [random numbers]' from 30/04/15 coming from random names and email addresses with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please fill out the attached form and return it to us.
Best regards, Antonia Lang
The name in the body of the email matches the alleged sender. The purchase number in the subject matches the attachment name. The malware payload is exactly the -same- as the payload in today’s earlier spam run of malicious word docs 'Copy of claim passed for consideration to HM Courts Ref:...' – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware*. The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/copy-o...sheet-malware/
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Fake 'Unaccepted account, ACH SPAM, Macro Malware, Fiesta exploit kit
FYI...
Fake 'Unaccepted account' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/holded...e-pdf-malware/
4 May 2015 - "An email coming from random senders and random email addresses with subjects of 'Holded account notification' or 'Unaccepted account caution' or similar vaguely banking related subjects with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... Some subjects seen with this series of spam emails are:
Blocked bank operation report
Holded account notification
Unaccepted account caution
Rejected operation warning
Blocked transaction warning
Some attachment names are:
block_warning_information.zip
nullfication_alert_details.zip
rejection_message_data.zip
rejection_notification_form.zip
invalidation_alert_document.zip
The email looks like:
Be noted that your depositis rejected.
Please see the report for detailed information.
Susan Morgan
Account Security Department
-Or-
Be adviced that your payment not accepted.
Please see the document for detailed information.
Mary Roberts
Senior Manager
-Or-
We inform you that your fund not accepted.
Please look the document for detailed information.
Jane Jones
Senior Manager
4 May : block_warning_information.zip | nullfication_alert_details.zip
Extracts to: block_warning_report.exe | abrogation_warning_information.exe
Current Virus total detections: 1/55* | 1/55** . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...bbc1/analysis/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
166.78.246.145: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
91.211.17.201: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
38.124.60.223: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
UDP communications
191.233.81.105: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1430748957/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.130.28.231: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
91.211.17.201: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
38.124.60.223: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
UDP communications
23.101.187.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19657
2015-05-05
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ACH Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...46488/ach-spam
May 4, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
ACH Approval Letter
Typical e-mail details:
The Automated Clearing House (ACH) application for your company has been processed and the payer unit number assigned is 029762. This number identifies to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland the account to be debited and is required input in the “ABI ACH Payment Authorization Input Record.” It is the responsibility of the payer to use the correct payer unit number in every transaction in which statements are paid via ACH.
You may begin paying statements via ACH. If you are a Customhouse broker who is using ACH for the first time, please contact your ABI client representative to request that your ABI records be updated to permit ACH filing. If you are already using ACH for other importer statement transmissions, you do not need to contact your ABI client representative. If you are a new ABI importer, please contact your ABI client representative to ensure that the appropriate ABI records are updated to permit you to transmit entry summaries, which will be filed under ACH...
If you have any questions, you may contact ACH Help Desk at (317) 298-1200, extension 1098.
Sincerely,
Cindi Miller, Chief
Collections Refunds and Analysis Branch
Revenue Division
Thank You,
Kirsten Anderson
Malicious File Name and MD5:
ACH_Import_Information.scr (bc7bb730e98fcde7044251784e0d8ceb)
Tagged: ACH, Upatre
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Macro Malware: Old Tricks still Work ...
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...l-work-part-1/
May 4, 2015 - "Now comes a time when we are reminded of why this security warning prompt in Microsoft Word matters:
Microsoft Word security warning for macros:
> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...4/Figure01.jpg
... We’ve already seen signs of macro malware in the threat landscape a year ago with the W97M_SHELLHIDE.A and TSPY_ZBOT.DOCM combination. At first, we thought that it was just a chance encounter but, as covered in our recent report on BARTALEX, the method of distributing malware through the misuse of macros has borne the likes of DRIDEX, ROVNIX and VAWTRAK into computer systems from the latter part of 2014 up to this year. What’s more, we noticed that this resurgence of macro malware has a single area of focus: enterprises. Enterprises were heavily affected by a spam outbreak involving macro malware. We saw that macro malware detections in Q1 2015 drove huge numbers:
Q1 2015 MS Word and Excel malware detections:
> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...4/Figure-2.jpg
This data is based on feedback from Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network, representing files that have been detected on endpoints. The following conclusions can be drawn:
- The two common malware families seen are W97M_MARKER and W2KM_DLOADR.
- You can see X2KM_DLOADR detections around the start of February.
- A couple more significant ones like W2KM_DOXMAL and W2KM_MONALIS started showing up on the 2nd week of March
- Finally, W2KM_BARTALEX started picking up middle of February and was seen up to the last week of March... The macro code was instrumental in dropping the .DLL file that instated the malware, GHOLE. Targeted attack campaigns would usually use vulnerabilities that had been determined to be effective on a target, or even zero-day vulnerabilities. This operation, however, had taken a much easier route of using the tired, old method of traditional malware. If you take the methods employed by GHOLE, ZBOT, DRIDEX, ROVNIX and VAWTRAK, we’ve all seen them in the past – as well as macro malware and email-borne threats... the right time has come and known threats are repackaged with old methods, resulting to what we now determine to be equally effective..."
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Fiesta EK wreaks havoc on popular Torrent Site
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/exploi...-torrent-site/
May 4, 2015 - "... Beside the illegal nature of the act in some countries, many sites that index torrents are filled with aggressive ads and pop ups often tricking the user to run programs and other junk that they don’t need. To get the actual content you were looking for is often a battle that could end with some unwanted toolbars added to your browser, or worse, malware. Such is the case with popular Torrent index SubTorrents .com, a very popular Torrent in Spain and Latin America... Users trying to download their favourite TV show may end up getting more than they were looking for. Upon browsing the site, a malicious -redirection- silently loads the Fiesta exploit kit and associated malware payload. Fortunately, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit users were shielded from this threat... Given the large amounts of ads on the site, it would have been fair to suspect a malvertising issue, but this was not the case here. Rather, the site itself has been -compromised- and serves a well hidden iframe... the author had some fun trying to make things a little more complicated. Rather than directly inserting a malicious iframe (to the exploit kit landing), they chose to build it on the fly by retrieving the content from an external .js... The exploit kit is Fiesta EK and we noticed a new format, where semi colons are now commas... Downloading illegal Torrents is dangerous business. On top of fake files that waste your time and bandwidth, users have to navigate through a sea of misleading ads and pop ups. They may end up saving a few bucks off that latest movie but could also risk a lot more, like getting a nasty malware infection. Ransomware being so prevalent these days could mean that all of user’s files, including those movies and songs could be encrypted and held for ransom. Regardless, it is important to stay safe from such attacks by keeping your computer up-to-date..."
(More detail at the malwarebytes URL above.)
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Fake 'INVOICE' SPAM, Smartphone Apps...
FYI...
Fake 'INVOICE' SPAM - doc/xls malware attached
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/ref-dw...sheet-malware/
5 May, 2015 - "'Ref: DW95009KSG [random characters] from 05/05/15 for review' coming from random names and email addresses with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email contains an image of an invoice downloaded from a website looks like:
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...w-1024x686.png
If you have your email client set to read in plain text only, then you get an email which just reads as pure garbled junk text.
5 May 2015 : DW95009KSG.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56* ... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1430822826/
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Smartphone Apps secretly connect to User Tracking and Ad Sites
Security researchers have developed an automated system for detecting Android apps that secretly connect to ad sites and user tracking sites.
- http://www.technologyreview.com/view...-and-ad-sites/
May 1, 2015 MIT - "There are essentially two starkly different environments in which to download apps. The first is Apple’s app store, which carefully vets apps before allowing only those deemed fit to appear. The second is the Google Play store, which is more -open- because Google exercises a lighter touch in vetting apps, only excluding those that are obviously malicious. But because Google Play is more open, the apps it offers span a much wider quality range. Many connect to ad-related sites and tracking sites while some connect to much more dubious sites that are associated with malware. But here’s the problem — this activity often takes place without the owner being aware of what is going on. That’s something that most smartphone users would be appalled to discover — if only they were able to... In total, the apps connect to a mind-boggling 250,000 different urls across almost 2,000 top level domains. And while most attempt to connect to just a handful of ad and tracking sites, some are much more prolific... Most users of these apps will have little, if any, knowledge of this kind of behavior..."
(More detail at the technologyreview URL above.)
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Fake 'SEPA', 'Invoice 37333', 'Check your requisite' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'SEPA' SPAM - malware attachment
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/urgent...yment-malware/
6 May 2015 - "'Urgent notice about your SEPA Payment' coming from random names and email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
The SWIFT transaction, recently initiated from your company”s online banking account, was aborted by the Electronic Payments Association.
Aborted transfer
SWIFT Processing Case ID G10536592
Transaction Amount 38058.65 Pounds sterling
E-mail info@thespykiller .co .uk
Reason of rejection View details
Please click the address given at the top to see the statement with all details about this case.
-or-
The online transaction, recently sent from your company”s checking account, was cancelled by the other financial institution.
Rejected transfer
Transaction Case ID R89716531
Total 21696.96 GBP
Billing E-mail amy@hedgehoghelp .co .uk
Reason for rejection View details
Please click the address you can find above to open the MS Word document with the full info about this problem.
There are dozens if not -hundreds- of different -dropbox- links with this series of spam emails. It is very likely that each one will have a different sha256# so the detections on VirusTotal might well be incorrect.
6 May 2015: online Payment6688.zip : Extracts to: Rejected SWIFT Transaction.doc Word Document_86535.scr Current Virus total detections: 2/55* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper word doc instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1430902669/
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Fake 'Invoice 37333' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
6 May 2015 - "'Invoice 37333 from CONTRACT SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED' pretending to come from accounts3 <accounts3@ contractsecurity .co .uk> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ES-LIMITED.png
6 May 2015 : Inv_37333_from_CONTRACT_SECURITY_SERVICES_LTD_3000.doc
Current Virus total detections: 2/57* ... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1430904557/
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Fake 'Check your requisite' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/check-...e-pdf-malware/
6 May 2015 - "'Check your requisite' coming from random names and email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Good morning
Could You please check your requisite details under the contract #4HZKYN
The contract number in the body of the email matches the zip attachment name.
6 May 2015: QmXFW4.zip: Extracts to: invalidation_invoice_report.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/56* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1430906359/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
166.78.246.145: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
91.211.17.201: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
184.164.97.239: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
90.84.60.97: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
UDP communications
23.99.222.162: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
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Fake 'Transport' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/email-...sheet-malware/
6 May 2015 - "Email from 'Transport for London' pretending to come from noresponse@ cclondon .com with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...for-London.png
6 May 2015 : AP0210780545.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/57*
... which downloads from volpefurniture .com/111/46.exe (VirusTotal**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1430908758/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1430909515/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
62.152.36.90: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
90.84.60.97: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
volpefurniture .com: 192.254.142.34: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...sport-for.html
6 May 2015
... Recommended blocklist:
62.152.36.90
89.28.83.228
185.12.95.191
185.15.185.201 ..."
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ADP Invoice Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...p-invoice-spam
May 6, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
ADP invoice for week ending 05/06/2015
Typical e-mail details:
Your most recent ADP invoice is attached for your review.
If you have any questions regarding this invoice, please contact your ADP service team at the number provided on the invoice for assistance.
Please note that your bank account will be debited within one banking business day for the amount(s) shown on the invoice.
Thank you for choosing ADP for your business solutions.
Important: Please do not respond to this message. It comes from an unattended mailbox.
Malicious File Name and MD5:
invoice_400119471.exe (222ddd63ab85f03ff344c4328e58896c)
Tagged: ADP, Upatre
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IRS e-Help Desk Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...help-desk-spam
May 6, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
E-mail Receipt Confirmation - Ticket#SD0180867
Typical e-mail details:
The IRS e-help Desk has received your email on 05/06/15. A case has been opened in response to your question or issue.
Your case ID is : SD0180867
Details about this case has been attached.
If additional contact is necessary, please reference this case ID.
You will receive a reply within two business days.
Thank you for contacting the IRS e-help Desk.
Malicious File Name and MD5:
SD743299.exe (222ddd63ab85f03ff344c4328e58896c)
Tagged: IRS, Upatre
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Fake 'order', 'invoice', 'Payslip', 'Credit Note' SPAM, Rombertik malware
FYI...
Fake 'order' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/you-or...sheet-malware/
7 May 2015 - "'You order form:[XY12469DMM] from 06/05/15 recived; MYTRAH ENERGY LTD' ... with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
We have received your order form [XY12469DMM] and we thank you very much. Our sales department informs us that they are able to dispatch your stock by the end of next week following your packing instructions.
As agreed, we have arranged transport. We are sending herewith a copy of our pro-forma invoice.
The consignment will be sent as soon as the bank informs us that the sum is available. We hope you will be satisfied with the fulfilment of this order and that it will be the beginning of a business relationship to our mutual benefit.
Best regards, Hallie Foreman
MYTRAH ENERGY LTD
7May 2015 : XY12469DMM.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56*
The malicious macro in this example tries to connect to pastebin .com/download.php?i=VTd9HVkz where it downloads an encrypted/encoded text file which in turn is used to contact http ://91.226.93.14/stat/get.php and downloads test.exe (VirusTotal**). This also attempts to download an image from savepic .org/7260406.jpg... why or what purpose this is used for except to try to persuade you that the file is innocent. This image is of an orthodox Jewish man, but yesterday’s malicious word docs tried to use an image of the Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1430990065/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1430990250/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
46.36.217.227: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
UDP communications
104.41.150.68: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
91.226.93.14: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
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Fake 'invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-i...sheet-malware/
7 May 2015 - "'Your invoice from Price & Company 01537833 REP' pretending to come from focus@ price-regency .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... This email has what appears to be a genuine word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attached which is malformed and contains a macro script virus... The email looks like:
Attached is your invoice 01537833.
7 May 2015 : 01537833.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/52*
... which tries to connect to hmcomercial .com.br/75/47.exe ... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1430990459/
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Fake 'Payslip' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/paysli...e-pdf-malware/
7 May 2015 - "'Payslip for period end date 30/04/2015' pretending to come from noreply@ fermanagh .gov .uk with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email when it arrives working looks like:
Dear administrator
Please find attached your payslip for period end 30/04/2015
Payroll Section
————
7 May 2015: payslip.zip: Extracts to: payslip.exe
Current Virus total detections: 0/58 (virus Total currently down so will update later)
This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
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Fake 'Credit Note' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/credit...sheet-malware/
7 May 2015 - "'Credit Note' pretending to come from sales@ scspackaging .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Thank you very much for getting in touch.
Please find credit attached.
Apologies for any inconvenience, we hope this covers everything.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Thank you
Regards
SCS
7 May 2015: Credit Note.doc ... -same- malware payload as today’s earlier malicious word docs 'Your invoice from Price & Company 01537833 REP – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware'* although the copy I saw used a -different- download location. There are numerous different download locations around... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-i...sheet-malware/
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Lloyds Bank Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...oyds-bank-spam
May 7, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
Lloyds Bank - Pendeford Securities - Please Read Action Required/PI Documents/ Region code East 2/ 7262921/
Typical e-mail details:
Please find attached our document pack for the above customer. Once completed please return via email to the below address.
If you have any queries relating to the above feel free to contact us at
MN2Lloydsbanking@ lloydsbanking .com
Malicious File Name and MD5:
ReportonTitle770415.1Final 1.exe (8178ad46a72c44cdb9a6146f0952d5bf)
Tagged: Lloyds Bank, Upatre
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Malvertising strikes dozens of top adult sites
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malver...p-adult-sites/
May 7, 2015 - "We have been observing a very large malvertising campaign affecting dozens of top adult sites over the past week. All these attacks have a common element, a Flash based infection via a rogue advertiser abusing the AdXpansion ad network... this particular campaign is quite noticeable due to the number of sites affected and their popularity. According to stats from SimilarWeb .com, these adult portals account for a combined 250+ million monthly visits.
drtuber .com 60.2 M
nuvid .com 46.5 M
hardsextube .com 43.7 M
justporno .tv 32.5 M
alphaporno .com 24.9 M
eroprofile .com 18 M
pornerbros .com 16.6 M
pichunter .com 6.6 M
iceporn .com 6.4 M
tubewolf .com 6.2 M
winporn .com 5.4 M ...
As we have seen lately, more and more malvertising attacks are self-contained. The same fraudulent Flash advert is also used as the exploit, making it much more streamlined and sometimes hard to pinpoint. The advert displaying sexual enhancement drugs, is loaded with malicious code that will immediately attempt to exploit the visitor, regardless of whether they click on the ad or not... The bogus advert can exploit Flash Player up until version 17.0.0.134, released less than two months ago... The malware payload may vary but could result in multiple different malicious binaries dropped via a Neutrino-like EK (credit Kafeine*)..."
* http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/20...00134-and.html
"... As spotted by FireEye on 2015-04-17**, Angler EK is now taking advantage of a vulnerability patched with the last version of Flash Player (17.0.0.169)..."
** https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-...xploiting.html
Apr 18 2015
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Rombertik malware ...
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/securi...out-rombertik/
May 6, 2015 - "... What’s mostly uncommon about Rombertik is that, unlike much of the other malware in circulation today, Rombertik will -trash- the user’s hard drive if certain hash values don’t line up. This is an uncommon practice in malware, although it does happen on occasion. Recall that the malware involved in the Sony Pictures hack of last year did the same thing, and even earlier attacks were happening against banks in South Korea that did the same thing... Unlike those examples though, Rombertik doesn’t appear to be a state-sponsored malware. Instead, it mostly appears in phishing messages and other spam which will fall into the hands of everyday users. Much like everyday malware, most of Rombertik’s actions aren’t too unique. When looking at the picture depicting Rombertik’s course of action*, its noted the malware performs a lot of the same techniques seen in malware over the last several years; things like creating “excessive activity” to blow up procmon logs or having the binary overwrite itself in memory with unpacked code (Run PE) isn’t anything new in the world of malware.
* https://blogs.cisco.com/wp-content/u...se-flow-wm.png
... In the case of Rombertik, the malware writes random bytes to memory many times before proceeding execution. This would be something that conventional malware sandboxes don’t account for, and therefore would be considered an anti-sandbox technique... For the full report on Rombertik by Talos, click here**."
** http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/rombertik
May 4, 2015 - "... Rombertik is a complex piece of malware with several layers of obfuscation and anti-analysis functionality that is ultimately designed to steal user data. Good security practices, such as making sure anti-virus software is installed and kept up-to-date, -not- clicking on attachments from unknown senders, and ensuring robust security policies are in place for email (such as blocking certain attachment types) can go a long way when it comes to protecting users. However, a defense in depth approach that covers the entire attack continuum can help identify malware and assist in remediation in the event that an attacker finds a way to evade detection initially..."
- https://atlas.arbor.net/briefs/
May 7, 2015 - "... Rombertik was the subject of recent reports. This new version employs numerous methods to -evade- sandbox forensics, including an attempt to overwrite the MBR if it believes it is being analyzed in memory. A recent spearphishing campaign against Taiwanese government officials targeted the victims through a common consumer grade messaging application. Regardless of the types of applications in use (enterprise or BYOD), attackers will leverage any possible vector in their attempts to fulfill campaign objectives..."
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Fake 'Scanned tickets' SPAM, PayPal Phish, Nuclear Exploit Kit
FYI...
Fake 'Scanned tickets' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/scanne...sheet-malware/
8 May 2015 - "'Scanned tickets' pretending to come from Rebecca De Mulder <milestoneholdings@ yahoo .co .uk> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Afternoon
Attached are the tickets you have requested
Kinds Regards kath
Milestone Holdings
Tel: 01676 541133
Mob: 07976 440015
08 May 2015: scan0079.xls - Current Virus total detections: 3/56*
Automatic analysis has not detected any network activity or malware download so far. Once we have full details of other analysis we will update this.
Update: manual analysis gives http ://wesleychristianschool .org/43/83.exe as the download location
(VirusTotal**). Note with these there will be -numerous- different macros with different download locations all giving the -same- actual malware... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1431073205/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1431074156/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
62.152.36.90: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
UDP communications
23.99.222.162: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
wesleychristianschool .org: 192.185.166.117: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
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PayPal Phish ...
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-...phishing-scam/
May 8, 2015 - "There’s a “Your account has been limited” email in circulation, targeting users of PayPal. The mail, which (bizarrely) claims to come from servicesATapple .com, claims that the account needs to be unlocked by confirming the potential victim’s identity.
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...15/05/ppl1.jpg
The Email reads as follows:
Your Account PayPal Has Been Limited !
Dear Customer,
To get back into your PayPal account, you'll need to confirm your identity.
It's easy:
Click on the link below or copy and past the link into your browser.
Confirm that you're the owner of the account, and then follow the instructions.
The link leads to a .ma URL, which is the country code for Morocco:
confirm-identity(dot)me(dot)ma
The page is currently offline, but there’s a collection of related websites with similar URLs as per this VirusTotal page*.
* 72.55.165.59: https://www.virustotal.com/cs/ip-add...9/information/
Some of these have been taken down, a few are still live so it’s probable there are multiple email campaigns leading to each of the -fake- sites... In -all- cases, delete the mail and don’t click on the URLs which aren’t official PayPal domains or secured with https (occasionally phish pages use https, but they’re pretty rare)..."
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Word Macro Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...ord-macro-spam
May 8, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
#3zLT5
#LvaX6
ID: MrYSk
Typical e-mail details:
Sent from my ipad
Malicious File Name and MD5:
99HOaFRD.doc (6162c6b0abc8cab50b9d7c55d71e08fe)
Tagged: Word doc Macro, Upatre, iPad, dyre
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Ad Network Compromised, Users Victimized by Nuclear Exploit Kit
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...r-exploit-kit/
May 7, 2015 - "MadAdsMedia, a US-based web advertising network, was -compromised- by cybercriminals to lead the visitors of sites that use their advertising platform to Adobe Flash exploits delivered by the Nuclear Exploit Kit. Up to 12,500 users per day may have been affected by this threat; three countries account for more than half of the hits: Japan, the United States, and Australia.
This attack was first seen in April, although at relatively low traffic levels. The number of users at risk grew significantly as May started, with the peak of 12,500 daily affected users reached on May 2:
> https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...05/MadAds1.jpg
We initially thought that this was another case of malvertising, but later found evidence that said otherwise. Normal malvertising attacks involve the -redirect- being triggered from the advertisement payload registered by the attacker. This was not evident in the MadAdsMedia case... We found in our investigation that the URL didn’t always serve JavaScript code, and instead would sometimes redirect to the Nuclear Exploit Kit server... This led us to the conclusion that the server used by the ad network to save the JavaScript library was compromised to redirect website visitors to the exploit kit. MadAdsMedia serves a variety of websites globally, and several of the affected sites appear to be related to anime and manga. The Flash exploits in use are targeting CVE-2015-0359*, a vulnerability that was patched only in April of this year. Some users may still be running -older- versions of Flash and thus be at risk. The Flash exploits are being delivered by the Nuclear Exploit Kit, a kit that has been constantly updated to add new Flash exploits and has been tied to crypto-ransomware... Attacks like these highlight the importance for ad networks to keep their infrastructure secure from attacks. Making sure that web servers and applications are secure will help ensure the protection of the business and their customers. End users, on the other hand, are advised to keep popular web plugins up to date. Users with the latest versions of Adobe Flash would not have been at risk. Monthly Adobe updates are released at approximately the same time as Patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month); this would be a good time for users to perform what is, in effect, preventive maintenance on their machines..."
* https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2015-0359
Last revised: 04/22/2015 - "Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x -before- 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and -before- 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors..."
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Fake 'Fax' SPAM, Apple ID phish
FYI...
Fake 'Fax' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/anne-l...e-pdf-malware/
11 May 2015 - "'Patio furniture- Levy, Port St. Lucie' coming from random email addresses and random names with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Attention:
Please see attached letter. I await your immediate response.
Thank you,
Anne Levy
11 May 2015: ONE example PutkTvy9XAf.zip: Extracts to: Fax_wqe32rq2vgwb_data.exe
Current Virus total detections: 0/56*. All the attachments have random names and extract to random names and numbers but all appear to start with -fax- so far today. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1431341851/
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Fake 'Water Line' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/huntsm...e-pdf-malware/
11 May 2015 "'Huntsman Way Water Line' coming from random names and email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
HI,
Was a pleasure talking with you again this morning.
Find attached the quote you requested for your bid.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Have a great day!
Respectfully,
Steve Geissen
Estimating / Outside Sales (Beaumont / Lufkin)
O:(409)813-2796 F:(409)813-2623 M:(409)363-3038 ...
11 May 2015: 8fs77CjN2XXh.zip: Extracts to: Invoice_w543245345_4323.exe
Current Virus total detections: 3/56* . Another version as these appear to be random sizes and contents N3dQrS51H469.zip extracts to Fax_11112436_4323.exe
Current Virus total detections: 8/57** . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1431355859/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1431358936/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.130.28.231: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
91.211.17.201: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
67.219.166.113: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
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Fake 'Payment details' SPAM - doc malware attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...-and-copy.html
11 May 2015 - "... using the analysis of an anonymous source (thank you)..
From: Kristina Preston [Kerry.df@ qslp .com]
Date: 11 May 2015 at 12:56
Subject: Payment details and copy of purchase [TU9012PM-UKY]
Dear [redacted]
On 08/05/15 you have requested full payment details and copy of purchase. Please refer to document in the attachment.
Any queries? Please reply back with your questions and you will receive a prompt and qualitative response as soon as possible. Please do not hesitate to write us.
Kristina Preston
Brewin Dolphin
The names and references -change- between different versions, but in all cases there is a malicious DOC file attached. This DOC has an unusual structure in that it is a some sort of MIME file containing a mixture of HTML and Base64-encoded segments... source has analysed that this downloads a VBS file from Pastebin... which then downloads some sort of .NET binary from 91.226.93[.]14:8080/stat/get.php (Sobis, Russia). This binary has a detection rate of 2/56* and according to automated analysis tools... it communicates with:
46.36.217.227 (FastVPS, Estonia)
It also drops a DLL with an MD5 of f0d261147d2696253ab893af3d125f53 and a detection rate of 1/56**.
Recommended blocklist:
46.36.217.227
91.226.93.14 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1431349548/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
46.36.217.227: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...def8/analysis/
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/05/11/fake...ous-word-file/
May 11, 2015
- https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...6762/analysis/
Detection ratio: 1/56
Analysis date: 2015-05-11 14:33:59 UTC
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Fake 'Fiserv' SPAM - zip malware attached
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/05/11/fake...upatre-trojan/
May 11, 2015 - "... intercepted a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subject 'Fiserv Secure Email Notification – 8715217'. This email is sent from the -spoofed- address “Fiserv Secure Notification <secure.notification@ fiserv .com>” and has the following body:
You have received a secure message
Read your secure message by opening the attachment, SecureFile.zip.
The attached file contains the encrypted message that you have received.
To read the encrypted message, complete the following steps:
– Double-click the encrypted message file attachment to download the file to your computer.
– Select whether to open the file or save it to your hard drive. Opening the file displays the attachment in a new browser window.
To access from a mobile device, forward this message to mobile@ res .fiserv .com to receive a mobile login URL.
If you have concerns about the validity of this message, please contact the sender directly. For questions about secure e-mail encryption service, please contact technical support at 888.362.9972.
2000-2015 Fiserv Secure Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
The attached file SecureFile8715217.zip contains the 37 kB large file SecureFile.exe. The trojan is known as Virus.Win32.Heur.c, W32/Upatre.E3.gen!Eldorado, UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic or Trojan.Win32.Qudamah.Gen.5. At the time of writing, 8 of the 56 AV engines did detect the trojan at Virus Total*..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...45f6/analysis/
File name: SecureFile.vxe
Detection ratio: 9/56
Analysis date: 2015-05-11 15:01:00 UTC
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"Breaking Bad" themed ransomware - Fake PDF attachment ...
- http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3035
11.05.2015 - "A new type of ransomware is targeting Australian users, and its creators have decided to have some fun and express their love for the popular US TV show 'Breaking Bad' while trying to 'earn' some money:
> http://www.net-security.org/images/a...s-11052015.jpg
It encrypts the usual assortment of file types - images, documents, audio and video files, archive and database files - with a random Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) key, which is then encrypted with an RSA public key. 'The malware arrives through a malicious zip archive, which uses the name of a major courier firm in its file name. This zip archive contains a malicious file called PENALTY.VBS, which when executed, downloads the crypto ransomware onto the victim’s computer. The threat also downloads and opens a legitimate .pdf file to trick users into thinking that the initial zip archive was not a malicious file' Symantec researchers shared:
> http://www.symantec.com/connect/app#...are-found-wild
.
>> http://www.symantec.com/security_res...050723-5132-99
The crooks ask for the -ransom- to be paid in Bitcoin, and instruct victims on how to do this via a legitimate YouTube tutorial... the malware can be pretty damaging. The best protection against this type of destructive malicious software is to back up important files regularly."
>> http://www.symantec.com/connect/app#...-how-stay-safe
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Xerox Fax Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...xerox-fax-spam
May 11, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
You have received a new fax
Typical e-mail details:
You have received fax from XEROX23685428 at <email domain>
Scan date: Mon, 11 May 2015 15:40:57 +0100
Number of page(s): 29
Resolution: 400x400 DPI
Name: Fax3516091
Malicious File Name and MD5:
IncomingFax.exe (c6c2d72f2b36e854f51ff92680969918)
Tagged: Xerox, Upatre
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Compromised .gov redirects to Apple ID Phish
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-...pple-id-phish/
May 11 2015 - "... a .gov .vn URL which was redirecting to a -phishing- expedition for Apple IDs... the email which sported a particularly French flavour:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...pplephish1.jpg
... victim was sent to: skintesting(dot)com(dot)au/components/com_mailto/views/sent/tmpl/auth/
which looked like yet another compromised domain, asking for Apple login credentials:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...pplephish3.jpg
... A .gov site is always going to be a juicy target for scammers so it’s crucial Admins keep everything patched and up to date – tracking back to where and how an attacker got in can be a long, arduous process. As for Apple ID owners, always -verify- you’re on the correct page before entering login details. Unless you specifically asked Apple to send you a link for some reason (a password reset, for example) then you should -avoid- random URLs sent your way*..."
* https://www.apple.com/uk/support/appleid/security/
skintesting .com .au: 192.185.109.233: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
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Fake 'invoice', 'contract', 'Outstanding Invoices' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/copy-o...sheet-malware/
12 May 2015 - "'Copy of your 123-reg invoice ( 123-015309323 )' pretending to come from no-reply@ 123-reg .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...015309323-.png
12 May 2015 : 123-reg-invoice.doc - Current Virus total detections: 5/57*
... this particular macro downloads greenmchina .com/432/77.exe (virus Total**) other macros will download the same malware from other locations... Other download locations so far are:
http ://hydrocapital .com/432/77.exe
http ://fosteringmemories .com/432/77.exe
http ://k-insects .com/432/77.exe
http ://andrewachsen .com/432/77.exe
... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1431420411/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1431420983/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
37.143.15.116: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
5.178.43.49: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...r-123-reg.html
12 May 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
37.143.15.116
62.152.36.90
89.28.83.228
185.15.185.201 "
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Fake 'contract' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/city-o...e-pdf-malware/
12 May 2015 - "'CITY OF PORT Arthur – STORM SEWER Project' coming from random names and random email addrrsses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please see attachment for contract. Please sign and return.
Thanks
Fred Stepp – Office Manager
McInnis Construction, Inc.,
675 South 4th Street
Silsbee, Texas 77656
email: fred@ mcinnisprojects .com
Phone: 409-385-5767
Fax: 409-385-2483
12 May 2015: m7Tfq4u1cS5i.zip: Extracts to: contract_DGSASGQ34G_erwr.exe
Current Virus total detections: 23/55*. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1431424842/
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Fake 'Outstanding Invoices' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...-invoices.html
12 May 2015 - "This -spam- comes with random senders and reference numbers, but in all cases includes a malicious attachment:
From: Debbie Barrett
Date: 12 May 2015 at 11:14
Subject: ATTN: Outstanding Invoices - [4697E0] [April|May]
Dear anthony,
Kindly find attached our reminder and copy of the relevant invoices.
Looking forward to receive your prompt payment and thank you in advance.
Kind regards
The attachment name combines the recipient's email address with the -fake- reference number, e.g. barry_51DDAF.xls which isn't actually an Excel file at all, but a multipart MIME file. Payload Security's Hybrid Analysis tools* manages to analyse it though, showing several steps in the infection chain. First a VBScript is downloaded from pastebin[.]com/download.php?i=5K5YLjVu
Secondly, that VBScript then downloads a file from 92.63.88[.]87:8080/bt/get.php (MWTV, Latvia) which is saved as crypted.120.exe, this has a detection rate of 2/57.**
This component then connects to 46.36.217.227 (FastVPS, Estonia) and according to this Malwr report drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 3/56***. There are several different attachments... Recommended blocklist:
92.63.88.0/24
46.36.217.227 "
* https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/samp...nvironmentId=4
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1431431603/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1431432524/
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Australian Tax Office Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...ax-office-spam
May 12, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
Australian Taxation Office - Refund Notification
Typical e-mail details:
IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION
Australian Taxation Office - 12/05/2015
After the last calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a refund of 0736.22 AUD.
For more details please follow the steps bellow :
- Right-click the link on the attachment name, and select Save Link As, Save Target As or a similar option provided.
- Select the location into which you want to download the file and choose Save.
- Unzip the attached file.
Iris Simmons,
Tax Refund Department
Australian Taxation Office
Malicious File Name and MD5:
ATO_TAX_724491.exe (3da854cd500c3cb5b86df19e151503cc)
Tagged: ATO, Upatre
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Fake 'WhatsApp audio letter', 'PAYMENT ACCOUNT DETAILS' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'WhatsApp audio letter' SPAM – mp3 malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/whatsa...e-mp3-malware/
13 May 2015 - "'You just accepted an audio letter! v8p' pretending to come from WhatsApp with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Savion Dale
13 May 2015: 72katheryne.zip : Extracts to: montag.mp3 _______________________________________.exe
Current Virus total detections:15/55* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper mp3 file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1431496654/
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Fake 'PAYMENT ACCOUNT DETAILS' SPAM - malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/paymen...67000-malware/
13 May 2015 - "'PAYMENT ACCOUNT DETAILS CONFIRMATION OF $67,000' pretending to come from jimmy cliff <jimmycliff2015@ hotmail .com> (email headers show that this does appear to be coming via Hotmail, so we have to assume a hacked/compromised Hotmail account) with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear Sir
Please, confirm your bank details in your invoice before we proceed with
your payment to avoid mistakes that can lead to delay.
Best Regards,
Afraa Shaymaa Maloof
PURHASING MANAGER
mediondirect INT.
708 N VALLEY ST STE C
ANAHEIM CA 92801-3837
Todays Date: BANK DETAILS.zip (1,288,813 bytes): Extracts to: PO#0001BH04_20_15.zip
... which in turn extracts to PO#0001BH04_20_15.exe - Current Virus total detections: 21/56*
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1431502495/
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Fake 'Invoice #00044105' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
13 May 2015 - "'Invoice #00044105; From Deluxebase Ltd' pretending to come from Anna <anna@ deluxebase .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Hello
Thank you for your order which has been dispatched, please find an invoice for the goods attached.
Please contact us immediately if you are unable to detach or download your Invoice.
As a valued customer we look forward to your continued business.
Regards
Accounts Department
Deluxebase Ltd ...
13 May 2015 : ESale.doc - Current Virus total detections: 5/55*
... which downloads sundialcompass .com/58/39.exe (VirusTotal**) other versions of these macros will deliver a download form other locations. They will all be the same malware.
Other download locations so far discovered are:
http ://fundacionsidom .com .ar/58/39.exe | http ://cartermccrary .com/58/39.exe |
http ://clin .cn/58/39.exe ...
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1431505840/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1431506138/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
37.143.15.116: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
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Fake 'INVOICE No.517-01' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...e-pdf-malware/
13 May 2015 - "'INVOICE No. 517-01 FOR WORK AT CRYSTAL BEACH' coming from random names and random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
in the attachment
13 May 2015: OX6qoPp98h48.zip: Extracts to: scan_32r23rf234gt34_3424ef.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/56*. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1431513162/
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Fake 'Financial info' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/financ...sheet-malware/
13 May 2015 - "An email with the subject of 'Financial information' or 'Important information' or 'Need your attention, Important notice' coming from random names and random email addresses with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment that is named after the email recipient is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Good morning
Please find attached a remittance advice, relating to a payment made to you.
Many thanks
Regards,
Madeline Mosley
Seniour Finance Assistant
-Or-
Good Afternoon,
We have received a payment from you for the sum of £ 670. Please would you provide me with a remittance, in order for me to reconcile the statement.
I will be sending you a statement of outstanding invoices tomorrow, the total amount outstanding is £ 1515 less the £3254.00 received making a total outstanding of £ 845. We would very much appreciate settlement of this.
As previously mentioned, we changed entity to a limited company on 1st December 2014. We are keen to close all the old accounts down, for both tax and year end reasons. We would be very grateful in your assistance in settling the outstanding.
If you need any copy invoices please do not hesitate to contact us
Regards,
Victoria Barnett
-Or-
Good Afternoon,
Please see attached the copy of the remittance.
Please can you send a revised statement so we can settle any outstanding balances.
Kind Regards,
Ingrid Hammond
13 May 2015: ron.schorr_AD8441271C40.doc | xerox.device1_D9A263380D.doc
Current Virus total detections: 0/56* | 0/56** both macros eventually download 91.226.93.110/bt/get1.php which is saved as crypted.120.exe (virus Total***) after going through a download from pastebin which gives the download location in encoded form... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1431512840/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b...is/1431512565/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1431512119/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
159.253.20.116: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
91.226.93.110: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...need-your.html
13 May 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
46.36.217.227
91.226.93.110 "
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Fake 'ACH' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/ach-ba...pdf-malware-2/
13 May 2015 - "'ACH – Bank account information form' pretending to come from Kris Longoria <Kris.Longoria@ jpmchase .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please fill out and return the attached ACH form along with a copy of a voided check.
Kris Longoria,
JPMorgan Chase
GRE Project Accounting
Vendor Management & Bid/Supervisor...
13 May 2015: Check_Copy_Void.zip: Extracts to: Check_Copy_Void.scr
Current Virus total detections: 9/55* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1431533270/
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Fake 'Bond Alternative' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/surety...e-pdf-malware/
13 May 2015 - "'Surety Bond Alternative coming from random names and email addresses with a random named zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...lternative.png
12 May 2015: XwJ4IR8V0F1ar.zip: Extracts to: invoice_ghrt6h65h_fwefw3.exe
Current Virus total detections: 2/56* (one example only, all these have different sha256 # and a random selection of file names). This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1431536544/
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Dyre Botnet using malicious Word Macros
- http://www.threattracksecurity.com/i...t-word-macros/
May 11, 2015 - "The Dyre group, a major malware spam producer, has changed their initial malware dropper to utilize Microsoft Word document -macros- instead of the usual executable types, such as .exe files contained in a .zip. Dyre’s Hedsen spambot*, responsible for the bulk of Upatre emails we’ve been tracking, now uses a template to send infected-macro Word files as spam attachments in hopes that the end user will click the attached .doc file and infect their system. This is a noticeable change in behavior for this particular spambot. As always, users should -disable- Macros in Office documents, and avoid the temptation to open suspicious attachments..."
> http://www.threattracksecurity.com/i...5/05/Macro.jpg
* http://www.threattracksecurity.com/i...ficates-https/
"... Dyre was increasing its target range and altering the type of spambots it uses..."
** http://www.threattracksecurity.com/i...more-websites/
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Fake 'Self Bill' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Self Bill' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/relian...sheet-malware/
15 May 2015 - "'Self Bill SB026336 Attached' pretending to come from Reliance Scrap Metal <enquiries@ reliancescrapmetal .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please Find Enclosed Self Bill Number SB026336 Dated 07/05/2015
C Phillips
enquiries@ reliancescrapmetal .com
15 May 2015 : Attachment.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56* which downloads bwsherwood .com/34/140.exe (VirusTotal**). There will be other download locations... All locations will deliver the same malware... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1431678745/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1431677370/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
151.236.216.254: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
bwsherwood .com: 69.49.101.51: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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Fake email Invoices April 2015 with attached malicious Word file
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/05/15/fake...ous-word-file/
May 15, 2015 - "... intercepted a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subjects like:
Financial information: Invoices April 2015
Important notice: Invoices April 2015
Important information: Invoices April 2015
Need your attention: Invoices April 2015
This email is sent from the -spoofed- address and has the following body:
Congratulations
Hope you are well
Please find attached the statement that matches back to your invoices.
Can you please sign and return.
Robin Wolfe
Dear Sir/Madam,
I trust this email finds you well,
Please see attached file regarding clients recent bill. Should you need further assistances lease feel free to email us.
Best Regards,
Sophia Watts
Accounts Receivables
Good morning
Hi,
Please find attached a recharge invoice for your broadband.
Many thanks,
Tabatha Murphy
The 49kB large attached file is named veizaioj_87B9A16BB5.doc (characters will vary) is a malicious Word file with embedded macro that will download -other- malware on the system. The Word file is labelled as Malware!9f6e by 1 of the 57 AV engines at Virus Total*..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f...8314/analysis/
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Unknown hacks attack German parliament data network
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0Y63P720150515
May 15, 2015 - "Unknown hackers have attacked the German Bundestag lower house of parliament's computer system, a parliamentary spokeswoman said on Friday. German news magazine Der Spiegel's online edition had earlier said that the internal data network had been subject to an attack. It said experts had noticed several days ago that unknown attackers had tried to get into the data network. At almost the same time experts from Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) at the government's cyber defence centre noticed the spying attempt and warned the Bundestag administration, the report said. 'There was an attack on the Bundestag's IT system', parliamentary spokeswoman Eva Haacke said, giving no further details. 'Experts from the Bundestag and the BSI (the German Federal Office for Information Security) are working on it'. In January, German government websites, including Chancellor Angela Merkel's page, were hacked in an attack claimed by a group demanding Berlin end support for the Ukrainian government, shortly before their leaders were to meet."
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0Y70HH20150516
May 16, 2015 - "The German Bundestag lower house of parliament is trying to repair its computer system after a hacking attack but there are no indications yet that hackers accessed information, a parliamentary spokeswoman said on Saturday. The Bundestag is analysing what happened and experts from the Bundestag administration and the BSI (the German Federal Office for Information Security) are working to repair the system, the spokeswoman said..."
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Cyberattack on Penn State said to have come from China
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0Y66PD20150515
May 15, 2015 - "Pennsylvania State University said on Friday that -two- cyberattacks at its College of Engineering, including one in 2012 that originated in China, compromised servers containing information on about 18,000 people. Penn State, a major developer of technology for the U.S. Navy, said there was no evidence that research or personal data such as social security or credit card numbers had been stolen. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant has confirmed that at least one of the two attacks was carried out by a "threat actor" based in China, Penn State said. The source of the other attack is still being investigated. Penn State was alerted about a breach by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in November, Penn State executive vice president Nicholas Jones said in a statement. Mandiant, the forensic unit of FireEye Inc, discovered the 2012 breach during the investigation. Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory spends more than $100 million a year on research, with most of the funding coming from the U.S. Navy..."
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/05/1...a-based-attack
May 15, 2015 - "Penn State's College of Engineering has disconnected its network* from the Internet in response to two sophisticated cyberattacks – one from a what the university called a "threat actor based in China" – in an attempt to recover all infected systems. The university said there was no indication that research data or personal information was stolen in the attacks, though usernames and passwords -had- been compromised.*"
* http://news.psu.edu/story/357656/201...-sophisticated
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Chinese snoops hid Malware commands On MS TechNet
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbr...icrosoft-site/
May 14, 2015 - "Hackers often try to hide their tracks and ensure their illicit operation is never taken down by hosting pieces of their infrastructure on websites owned by legitimate companies. Usually that’s Twitter, Facebook, Google or other huge, publicly-editable and accessible services. According to security firm FireEye*, Chinese digital spies chose an ideal yet risky target for storing slices of their command and control functions: TechNet, a Microsoft site dedicated to security and IT support. Though TechNet itself was not compromised, the so-called APT17 hackers left encoded IP addresses used to send updates and commands to the group’s ‘BLACKCFFEE’ malware** in legitimate Microsoft TechNet profile pages and forum threads. The encoding would have made it more difficult to determine the true domain used by the attackers. FireEye and Microsoft worked to block the attackers’ accounts from accessing their profiles, whilst blocking the malicious activity stemming from the site.
** https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/1015/207...t-11.18.58.png
The APT17 crew, which had previously used search engines Google and Bing to store their command and control domains, but abusing Microsoft’s TechNet was especially smart, as most businesses rely on using Microsoft services every day. Blocking them would probably cease business operations. “Even with knowledge and detection, blocking traffic to Microsoft sites is impossible to do as every business needs access to their site. Hiding in plain sight is becoming more and more popular as it’s both hard to find and impossible to block,” said Jason Steer, chief security strategist for FireEye in EMEA. “This evolution of technique really is the response from hackers to keep one step ahead of law enforcement agencies. As hackers realised law enforcement can track back, they have had to evolve their tools and techniques from plain text instructions on an IP address in China, to encoding instructions, to using popular websites to ensure their network remains up for as long as possible and undetected for as long as possible.” The APT17 crew have a penchant for playing with western tech companies. FireEye believes they were responsible for the hit on security firm Bit9 in 2013. They also targeted US government entities, the defense industry, law firms, information technology companies and mining organisations."
* https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-...lain_sigh.html
May 14, 2015
> https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/...17-graphic.jpg
- https://atlas.arbor.net/briefs/index#-181898354
May 14, 2015
> http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3038
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Fake 'Amazon Order' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Amazon Order' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/amazon...sheet-malware/
18 May 2015 - "'Order Details 89920-02119-38881-73110' pretending to come from Amazon .co .uk <order@ anazon .co .uk> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... Amazon... does -not- send word doc or pdf attachments to emails so this is obviously a spoof designed to either infect you or steal information...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...8881-73110.png
18 May 2015 : ORD-89920-02119-38881-73110.doc - Current Virus total detections: 3/57*
... which downloads infraredme .com/556/455.exe (Virus Total**). There will be other download locations but they all deliver the same Dridex banking Trojan malware... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1431938632/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1431939201/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
185.15.185.201: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
infraredme .com: 64.29.151.221: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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Fake 'picture message' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/heres-...sheet-malware/
18 May 2015 - "An email saying 'Here’s a picture message you’ve been sent from 07711888963' with -no- subject pretending to come from +447711862559@mediamessaging .o2 .co .uk (random phone numbers) with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...7711888963.png
18 May 2015: PM8963.doc - Current Virus total detections: 3/57**
... the -same- malware downloader and downloading the -same- Dridex banking Trojan as today’s other word doc malware Amazon .co .uk Order Details 89920-02119-38881-73110 – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware* ..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/amazon...sheet-malware/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1431940970/
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Fake multiple Invoice SPAM - malicious attachments
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...stands-in.html
18 May 2015 - "This -fake- financial spam run is similar to this one last week*, and comes with a malicious attachment.
From: Aida Curry
Date: 18 May 2015 at 11:40
Subject: Your reasoning stands in need
Good Afternoon,
We have attained a reimbursement from you for the draft of £ 2909. Please would you secure me with a remittance, in order for me to reconcile the statement.
I will be sending you a pronouncing of outstanding invoices tomorrow, the entire quantum of outstanding is £ 5893 less the 1 draft received making a whole outstanding of £ 2984. We would very much appreciate settlement of this.
As previously mentioned we reversed to a limited company on 1st December 2014. We are desire to conclude all the old checks down, for both tax and year end reasons. We would be very grateful in your assistance in eliciting the outstanding.
If you need any application of bills please do not hesitate to contact us
Regards,
Aida Curry
-------------------
From: Cornelius Douglas
Date: 18 May 2015 at 11:39
Subject: Your reasoning stands in need
Good morning
Please find attached a remittance advice, relating to a outpayment made to you.
Many thanks
Regards,
Cornelius Douglas
Seniour Finance Assistant
-------------------
From: Jewell Shepard
Date: 18 May 2015 at 11:37
Subject: Have a need in your thought
Please, see the attached similar of the remittance.
Please, can you remit a revised pronouncing so we can settle any outstanding balances.
Kind Regards,
Jewell Shepard
Subjects spotted so far are:
In want of your concern
Your reasoning stands in need
Have a need in your thought
Vital announcement 561335
Your advertence stands in need
Grand advert 482209
Important notice 540897
In want of your regarding
In want of your concern
Your reasoning stands in need
Wish to know your thought
Your cognizance is in great necessity
Need your consideration
There seem to be several different attachments, but for the sake of simplicity I have looked at just one. The Hybrid Analysis report shows this this is a MIME attachment that downloads and executes a script from pastebin[.]com/download.php?i=C5KGsRX3 which in turn downloads a malicious executable from 193.26.217[.]220:80/bt/get3.php (Servachok LTD, Russia) which is saved as crypted.120.exe. This executable has a VirusTotal detection rate of 4/57**. The Malwr and Hybrid Analysis reports indicates traffic to 5.63.154.228 (Reg.Ru, Russia) and also shows a dropped Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 3/57***."
Recommended blocklist:
5.63.154.228
193.26.217.220 "
* http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...need-your.html
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f...is/1431946975/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1431947900/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/some-f...sheet-malware/
18 May 2015
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f...is/1431950899/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
178.255.83.2: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
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VENOM vulnerability
- https://blogs.oracle.com/security/en..._cve_2015_3456
May 15, 2015 - "Oracle just released Security Alert CVE-2015-3456* to address the recently publicly disclosed VENOM vulnerability, which affects various virtualization platforms. This vulnerability results from a buffer overflow in the QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC). While the vulnerability is not remotely exploitable without authentication, its successful exploitation could provide the malicious attacker, who has privileges to access the FDC on a guest operating system, with the ability to completely take over the targeted host system. As a result, a successful exploitation of the vulnerability can allow a malicious attacker with the ability to escape the confine of the virtual environment for which he/she had privileges for... Oracle has decided to issue this Security Alert based on a number of factors, including the potential impact of a successful exploitation of this vulnerability, the amount of detailed information publicly available about this flaw, and initial reports of exploit code already “in the wild.” Oracle further recommends that customers apply the relevant fixes as soon as they become available...
The list of Oracle products that may be affected by this vulnerability is published at:
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/to...6-2542653.html "
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19701
2015-05-16 - "... This vulnerability is important because it has the potential to affect a significant portion of the virtualization platforms that are in common use today, but there is no reason to panic.
* The vulnerability cannot be compromised remotely, nor is it possible to remotely scan for this vulnerability.
* In order for the attacker to even attempt to exploit the vulnerability they need to have shell level access as an administrator level to a virtualized guest.
* While a proof of concept exists that exploits the vulnerability, nobody has demonstrated any practical use of the exploit.
* Patches are available for all affected virtualization platforms..."
* https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/d...=CVE-2015-3456
Last revised: 05/14/2015
7.7 - (HIGH)
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Fake 'PO :5182015' SPAM, Fake 'Tax Refund' Phish, 'Tax increase alert' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'PO :5182015' SPAM - zipped malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/shuili...82015-malware/
19 May 2015 - "'PO :5182015' pretending to come from shuiling <shuilingroup .com > with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please kindly find the attached file for the new Order we want to place in your esteem company
Kindly send your proforma invoice with your banking information, so that we will start with the needful
Thanks and regards
ATTILIO PASCUCCI
ATTEX S.R.L.
VIA ADIGE, 4 – 22070 LUISAGO – CO (ITALY)
TEL. 0039 031 921648 – FAX 0039 031 3540133
REG. IMPRESE COMO – COD.FISC. – PARTITA IVA: 01542400138
19 May 2015: PO 5182015.zip: Extracts to: PO 5182015.exe
Current Virus total detections: 15/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1431986200/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
186.202.127.118: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
77.88.21.11: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
93.158.134.3: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...3/information/
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Fake 'Tax Refund' Phish ...
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/lloyds...fund-phishing/
19 May 2015 - "An email received with a subject of 'Lloyds Bank Refund' -or- 'refund' -or- '2014 Tax Refund' pretending to come from Lloyds Bank. Some of of the major common subjects in a phishing attempt are Tax returns or Bank refunds, especially in UK, you need to submit your Tax Return online. This one only wants your personal bank log in details...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...fund-phish.png
If you are unwise enough to follow the link you see a webpage looking like the genuine Lloyds log in page, look carefully at the -url- in the top bar and you can see it isn’t Lloyds at all but a -fake- site:
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...h_webpage1.png
If you still haven’t realised that it is a -phishing- attempt and give them your username & password, you will be sent to the next page which asks for your memorable information. You then get -bounced- on to the genuine Lloyds Bank site. All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email..."
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Fake 'Tax increase alert' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/tax-in...e-pdf-malware/
19 May 2015 - "'Tax increase alert' -or- 'adjustment guidance' are 2 of the subjects that appear in a whole series of mal-spam emails with the basic subject of VAT increases or changes that are being spammed out. They come with a random named zip attachment coming from random senders and random email addresses is another one from the current bot runs... The name of the alleged sender does NOT match the name in the body of the email. Some of the subjects seen in this series of mal-spam emails are:
Tax increase alert, adjustment guidance, adjustment report, adjustment notice, change guidance, Custom increase notification, Custom change alert, Duties increase notification, Toll increase notification, Tax change reminder, Levy increase guidance, Duties adjustment alert, change notification, Toll change report and loads of other similar variations on this tax theme... The email looks like:
We inform you that VAT increases from Wednesday.
View the document below.
Remeber that levy values to be settled to the treasury are going to be reevaluated.
Susan Lewis
Senior Consultant
-Or-
Be noted that VAT doubles until Wednesday.
Observe the act enclosed.
Do not forget that tax amounts to be paid to the state will be reestimated.
Rebecca Morgan
-Or-
Tax Consultant
Be noted that VAT increases on Friday.
Observe the file below.
Note that tax amounts to be paid to the treasury will be reevaluated.
Rebecca Nelson
Chief accountant
-Or-
Please be informed that VAT alters until Tuesday.
Observe the file attached.
Remeber that sums to be paid to the state are going to be reevaluated.
Susan Jackson
Tax authority
19 May 2015: Doc#844931.zip: Extracts to: fax2_info.exe
Current Virus total detections: 3/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1432035348/
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Fake 'eFax msg' SPAM - malware links
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...on-office.html
19 May 2015 - "Apparently the Australian Taxation Office thinks I have a fax.. or perhaps it is something more sinister?
From: Australian Taxation Office [noreply @ ato .gov .au]
Date: 19 May 2015 at 12:48
Subject: eFax message - 2 page(s)
Fax Message [Caller-ID: 408-342-0521]
You have received a 2 pages fax at 2015-05-19 08:18:16 AM EST.
* The reference number for this fax is
min2_did16-0884196800-3877504043-49.
View this fax using your PDF reader...
Predictably, the link leads to a malicious download (this time at storage-ec2-24.sharefile .com) named Fax_00491175.zip and containing in turn a malicious executable Fax_00491175.scr. This executable has a detection rate of 5/57*. Automated analysis tools... shows that it downloads a further component from:
http ://employmentrisk .com/images/1405uk77.exe
In turn, this has a detection rate of 4/57** and the Hybrid Analysis report indicates that it tries to communicate with 194.28.190.183 (AgaNet Agata Goleniewska, Poland).
Recommended blocklist:
employmentrisk .com
194.28.190.183 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1432038054/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1432038513/
employmentrisk .com: 74.116.2.117: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
storage-ec2-24.sharefile .com: 52.0.190.130: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
eFax Corporate Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/1...corporate-spam
May 19, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
eFax message - 3 page(s)
Typical e-mail details:
Fax Message [Caller-ID: 626-271-6819]
You have received a 3 pages fax at 2015-05-19 08:18:18 AM EST.
* The reference number for this fax is
min2_did48-5711163227-0231815252-98.
View this fax using your PDF reader.
Screenshot: https://40.media.tumblr.com/cc50f039...r6pupn_500.png
Malicious URLs
storage-usw-8.sharefile.com/download.ashx?dt=dtba0aacb3cd344005be90d949470aa333&h=9Ueg3YdEIMuDH72YnA29c7h2EL7zh355nI387gxb7Kc%3d
Malicious File Name and MD5:
Fax_00491175.scr (a6aa82995f4cb2bd29cdddedd3572461)
Tagged: eFax, Upatre
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Bad taste left in Angler EK by MBAE
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/exploi...rebytes-users/
May 19, 2015 - "... as discovered by Kafeine*, the latest version of Angler EK... also checks to see if either Malwarebytes Anti-Malware or Anti-Exploit are installed on the target system... If Malwarebytes software is installed, then the exploit kit will silently exit and not even attempt to launch further exploits or malware..."
* http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/20...=CVE-2013-7331
Malwarebytes Anti Exploit - Free: https://www.malwarebytes.org/antiexploit/
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How much money do cyber crooks collect via crypto ransomware?
- http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3042
19.05.2015 - "FireEye researchers* have calculated that the cybercriminals wielding TeslaCrypt and AlphaCrypt have managed to extort $76,522 from 163 victims in only two months..."
* https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-..._followin.html
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Bitly Imitation leads to Malware...
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/securi...ware-download/
May 18, 2015 - "URL shortening services can be a marketing person’s and social media buff’s best friend. However, they can become a worry for users who are conscious about the security of their systems and personal information. Not only do these services trim down the character count of a URL while monitoring clicks, online -criminals- also use such services to mask malicious URLs. Among the URL shorteners available online, Bitly remains one of the three most popular brands, alongside Goo.gl and Ow.ly. Although the bit.ly URL has been in service since 2008, we’re only beginning to see several -bogus- iterations of it being used in the wild. We’ve seen a number of accounts on YouTube and others sharing various links to game cracks from the imitation Bitly URL, btly[DOT]pw... Elsewhere, another imitation Bitly link — this time, btly[DOT]org—is said to be used in a spam campaign that led recipients to a fake BBC site that advertises questionable Garcinia Cambogia dietary supplements. Please be reminded that the official website for Bitly where users can visit to shorten URLs is https ://bitly .com. Shortened URLs always begin with bit. ly. Everything else that resembles the real thing may need to be ignored, reported, and/or blacklisted."
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Fake 'Invoice# 2976361' SPAM, "Logjam" ...
FYI...
Fake 'Invoice# 2976361' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...-attached.html
21 May 2015 - "So far I have only seen one sample of this. The sender and subject may vary.
From: PGOMEZ@polyair .co .uk
Date: 21 May 2015 at 08:58
Subject: Invoice# 2976361 Attached
Invoice Attached - please confirm..
Attached is a malicious file with the not-very-imaginative name 00001.doc [VT 4/56*] which contains this malicious macro [pastebin] that downloads a component from the following location:
http ://mercury.powerweave .com/72/11.exe
This download site is hosted on 50.97.147.195 (Softlayer Technologies, US / Powerweave Software Services, India), although be aware that -other- versions of the macro may download from other locations. This file is saved as %TEMP%\ribasiml.exe and has a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/57**. Automated analysis tools... show attempted communications with the following IPs:
78.24.218.186 (TheFirst-RU, Russia)
78.46.60.131 (Hetzner, Germany)
87.236.215.151 (OneGbits, Lithuania)
94.242.58.146 (Fishnet Communications, Russia)
130.208.166.65 (The University of Iceland, Iceland)
176.31.28.250 (OVH, France / Bitweb LLC, Russia)
185.12.95.191 (RuWeb, Russia)
The Malwr report shows that it drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 4/57***.
Recommended blocklist:
78.46.60.131
87.236.215.151
94.242.58.146
130.208.166.65
176.31.28.250
185.12.95.191
50.97.147.195 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1432196986/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1432197071/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1432198215/
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
21 May 2015
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1432194451/
000001.DOC
mercury.powerweave .com: 50.97.147.195: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
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Fake 'Travel order confirmation' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/travel...sheet-malware/
21 May 2015 - "'Travel order confirmation 0300202959' pretending to come from overseastravel@ caravanclub .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your travel order.
Please find attached your booking confirmation which you should take with you on your trip. Please note we no longer send tickets for overseas travel bookings.
Now you have booked your trip why not let The Club help you make the most of your stay?
Did you know The Club has a wide selection of travel advice on the website as well as directions to all our overseas sites?
Want some inspiration on more sites across Europe? Take a look at our Caravan Europe Guides.
If you’ve not already taken out holiday insurance why not let The Club give you a Red Pennant quote online .
Yours sincerely
The Caravan Club
This email is sent from the offices of The Caravan Club, a company limited by guarantee (Company Number: 00646027). The registered office is East Grinstead House, London Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1UA...
21 May2015 : Travel Order Confirmation – 0300202959.doc
Current Virus total detections: 4/57* ... downloads -same- Dridex malware as today’s other word doc malspam run Invoice# 2976361 Attached – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware:
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoic...sheet-malware/
... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1432197951/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...firmation.html
21 May 2015 - "... Travel Order Confirmation - 0300202959.doc, however the payload seems to be identical to the one found in this earlier spam run*."
* http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...-attached.html
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Fake 'Pampered Chef' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/recipe...e-pdf-malware/
21 May 2015 - "'Recipes for your new Pampered Chef Baker' coming from random names and random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Hello!
I know you’ll love your new Pampered Chef baker! Thank you for your order.
Attached are Deep Covered Baker recipes.
Many Deep Covered Baker Recipes can also be made in the smaller, Round Covered Baker.
For microwave recipes, use half the ingredients and half the bake time suggested. For oven recipes, use half the
ingredients but follow recommended bake times or visual indicators in the recipe.
Enjoy!
Please contact me if you have questions or concerns.
Thank you,
Robbin
21 May 2015: Pampered_ingredients.zip: Extracts to: Pampered_ingredients.exe
Current Virus total detections: 3/57* . There are several different versions of the malware floating around. This is just one example. This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1432205437/
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Fake 'Unpaid Invoice' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/unpaid...e-pdf-malware/
21 May 2015 - "'Unpaid Invoice' pretending to come from HMRC .gov .uk <application@ hmrc .gov .uk> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please pay this invoice at your earliest opportunity.
21 May 2015: invoice_8467_08202014.zip: Extracts to: invoice_8467_08202014.scr
Current Virus total detections: 9/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1432226961/
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Fake 'Invoice# 2976361' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...-attached.html
21 May 2015 - "So far I have only seen one sample of this. The sender and subject may vary.
From: PGOMEZ@ polyair .co .uk
Date: 21 May 2015 at 08:58
Subject: Invoice# 2976361 Attached
Invoice Attached - please confirm...
Attached is a malicious file with the not-very-imaginative name 00001.doc [VT 4/56*] which contains this malicious macro [pastebin] that downloads a component from the following location:
http ://mercury.powerweave .com/72/11.exe
This download site is hosted on 50.97.147.195 (Softlayer Technologies, US / Powerweave Software Services, India), although be aware that other versions of the macro may download from other locations. This file is saved as %TEMP%\ribasiml.exe and has a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/57**. Automated analysis tools... show attempted communications with the following IPs:
78.24.218.186 (TheFirst-RU, Russia)
78.46.60.131 (Hetzner, Germany)
87.236.215.151 (OneGbits, Lithuania)
94.242.58.146 (Fishnet Communications, Russia)
130.208.166.65 (The University of Iceland, Iceland)
176.31.28.250 (OVH, France / Bitweb LLC, Russia)
185.12.95.191 (RuWeb, Russia)
The Malwr report shows that it drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 4/57***.
Recommended blocklist:
78.46.60.131
87.236.215.151
94.242.58.146
130.208.166.65
176.31.28.250
185.12.95.191
50.97.147.195 "
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1432196986/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1432197071/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1432198215/
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Exploit kits delivering Necurs
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19719
2015-05-21 - "In the past few days, we've seen Nuclear and Angler exploit kits (EKs) delivering -malware- identified as Necurs... Necurs is a type of malware that opens a back door on the infected computer [1]. It may also disable antivirus products as well as download additional malware [1][2]... I saw Necurs as a malware payload from Nuclear and Angler EKs last week... In each case, traffic went through a gate on 185.14.30.218 (between the compromised website and the EK landing page). We ran across Nuclear EK delivering Necurs again on 2015-05-20. In this example, the gate was on 91.121.63.249..."
(More detail at the isc URL above.)
1] https://www.symantec.com/security_re...121212-2802-99
2] https://www.microsoft.com/security/p...n:Win32/Necurs
185.14.30.218: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
91.121.63.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
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“Facebook Recovery” accounts share Phishing link, offer Tech Support
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-...-tech-support/
May 21, 2015 - "We’ve seen a certain j.mp -shortened- URL being shared by what we believe are
-rogue- (if not compromised) accounts within Facebook a couple of days ago. In the below sample we recovered, the URL in question is part of a message from another account called “Facebook recovery” — a truly -fake- one... that is up to task of notifying users that their accounts have been reported for abuse and will likely be disabled if they don’t act on the notice ASAP:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...-spam-post.png
The URL, of course, hides the below phishing page:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...ge-default.png
The blurb on the page is the same as the spammed message on Facebook. Once a user entered the credentials asked and click Log In, data is posted to recovery.php, and then users are -redirected- to this payment page, which asks for his/her full name, credit card details, and billing address:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...ng-payment.png
We have no idea why all of a sudden the account that claims to be a legitimate entity from Facebook is asking for a form of monetary compensation for the recovery of accounts. Perhaps that is what the phishers meant when they said “help us do more for security and convenience for everyone”. We have looked at the stats for the j.mp URL and found that it didn’t yield that many clicks from the time of its creation up to the present... It’s highly likely that the URL is not shared during these days, making it less visible than your average malicious URL. Less visibility also means that potentially less companies would be able to block it due to flying under the radar. VT results for the j.mp URL shows this*.
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/b5...is/1432202719/
Furthermore, the majority of clicks are mostly from Asian countries and the United States:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-con...er-country.png
We did a simple search on Facebook for accounts that may contain the string “Facebook recovery”. To date, we found more than 40... If you see posts on your feed that appear similar to the Facebook post we discussed here, whether it continues to bear the same URL or not, it’s best to -ignore- it and warn your network about an on-going -spam- campaign."
recovery-page-php .zz .mu: 185.28.21.145: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
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"Logjam"...
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/securi...-need-to-know/
May 20, 2015 - "... Dubbed as Logjam, the vulnerability affects home users -and- corporations alike, and over 80,000 of the top one million domains worldwide were found to be vulnerable. The original report on Logjam can be found here:
- https://weakdh.org/
... While much of the research is performed against a Diffie-Hellman 512-bit key group, the researchers behind the Logjam discovery also speculate that 1024-bit groups could be vulnerable to those with “nation-state” resources, making a suggestion that groups like the NSA might have already accomplished this... . A comprehensive look at all of their research can be found here:
- https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf
... At the time of this writing, patches are still in works for all the major web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. They should be released in the next day or two, so ensure your browser updates correctly once its released. These updates should reject Diffie-Hellman key lengths that are less that 1024-bits..."
Also see:
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19717
2015-05-20
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Fake 'Australian Tax', 'Invoice IN278577' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Australian Tax' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/austra...e-pdf-malware/
22 May 2015 - "'Australian Taxation Office – Remittance Advisory Email' pretending to come from Australian Taxation Office <noreply@ ato .gov .au> with a link to download a zip file is another one from the current bot runs... The bots seem to be getting very confused today and are mixing up Lloyds Bank with Australian Taxation Office and even using a date 1 year in the past. Nobody should fall for these. The links in the emails currently are set to download from:
- https ://storage-ec2-13.sharefile .com/download.ashx?dt=dt8fdfcdfa200a4b01b93e2643fa61fcc1&h=xw9ZAT0fvavEwl7uRL2DX3xEJcw6II19IbZfNyN1ix0%3d
Update: we are now seeing several different sharefile .com download links. All appear to be the same malware, regardless of the link. The same set of download links are being spammed out in other emails from the same bot net with subjects of 'You’ve received a new fax' appearing to come from fax@ your own domain and 'Internal ONLY' pretending to come from Administrator@ your own domain both alleging to contain a fax message. The email looks like:
Monday 22 May 2014
This is a Remitter Advice following the submission of a payment instruction by Lloyds Bank Plc. Please review the details of the payment here.
Lloyds Banking Group plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC95000. Telephone: 0131 225 4555. Lloyds Bank plc. Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales no. 2065. Telephone 0207626 1500. Bank of Scotland plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC327000. Telephone: 08457 21 31 41. Cheltenham & Gloucester plc. Registered Office: Barnett Way, Gloucester GL4 3RL. Registered in England and Wales 2299428. Telephone: 0845 603 1637
Lloyds Bank plc, Bank of Scotland plc are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority.
Cheltenham & Gloucester plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Halifax is a division of Bank of Scotland plc. Cheltenham & Gloucester Savings is a division of Lloyds Bank plc.
HBOS plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC218813...
22 May 2015 : FAX_82QPL932UN_771.zip: Extracts to: FAX_82QPL932UN_771.scr
Current Virus total detections: 3/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1432286982/
storage-ec2-13.sharefile .com: 54.84.9.118: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/05/malw...er-advice.html
22 May 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
209.15.197.235
217.23.194.237 "
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Fake 'Invoice IN278577' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-i...sheet-malware/
22 May 2015 - "'Your Invoice IN278577 from Out of Eden pretending to come from sales@ outofeden .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ut-of-Eden.png
22 May 2015 : Invoice IN278577 (emailed 2015-05-21).doc
Current Virus total detections: 1/57*... Which downloads www .footingclub .com/85/20.exe which is a Dridex banking Trojan (VirusTotal**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...is/1432288366/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1432288878/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
185.12.95.191: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
2.18.213.208: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake 'Blank 11', 'Invoice', 'Underreported Income' SPAM, Tesco phish
FYI...
Fake 'Blank 11' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/blank-...sheet-malware/
26 May 2015 - "'Blank 11' pretending to come from hannah.e.righton@ gmail .com with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... This email has what appears to be a genuine word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attached which is malformed and contains a macro script virus... The email has a completely blank body.
26 May 2015: Blank 11.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/57*
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1432633538/
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Fake 'Invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-i...sheet-malware/
26 May 2015 - "'Your Invoice (ref: INV232654) from thomsonlocal' pretending to come from Pleasedonotreply@ thomsonlocal .com with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...al_corrupt.png
... It is supposed to look like or read:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...mson_local.png
26 May 2015: Invoice INV232654.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/56*
... downloads the same Dridex banking malware as described in today’s other word macro malware downloaders being spammed out 'Blank 11 hannah.e.righton' – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware**. This particular macro version downloads from http ://crestliquors .com/73/20.exe
(VirusTotal***) but all the downloads are identical, just from multiple different locations.The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1432634028/
** http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/blank-...sheet-malware/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1432631807/
File name: 20_exe
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
144.76.238.214: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
crestliquors .com: 64.29.151.221: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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Fake 'Underreported Income' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/notice...e-pdf-malware/
26 May 2015 - "'Notice of Underreported Income' pretending to come from Australian Taxation Office <noreply@ ato .gov .au> and 'Outdated Invoice' pretending to come from Sage Invoice <invoice@ sage .com> with a -link- in the body of the email to download a zip file is another one from the current bot runs... The Australian Taxation Office email looks like:
Taxpayer ID: ufwsd-000008882579UK Tax Type: Income Tax Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application) Please review your tax income statement on HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC). Download your HMRC statement. Please complete the form...
The links in these emails go to https ://a .uguu .se/hivjca_Invoice_00471200.zip (Note the HTTPS) which gives a not found message. If you drop the S and just use a standard HTTP link then you get the malware. The Sage invoice looks like:
Sage Account & Payroll
You have an outdated invoice from Sage Accounting that is ready for payment. To find out more details on this invoice, please follow the link bellow or click here to view/download your account invoice:
https ://invoice .sage .co.uk/Account?769525=Invoice_090914.zip
If we hold any information about you which is incorrect or if there are any changes to your details please let us know by so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date. If you would like to update your records or see a copy of the information that we hold about you, you can contact us at Data Protection Officer, Sage (UK) Ltd, North Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE13 9AA or by email to digital@ sage .com. If you request a copy of your information you will need to pay a statutory fee which is currently £10.
The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies...
26 May 2015: ytuads_Invoice_00471206.zip: Extracts to: Invoice_00471206.scr
Current Virus total detections: 5/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1432638854/
Invoice_00471203.scr
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.238.136.31: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
93.185.4.90: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
66.215.30.118: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
uguu .se:
104.28.24.2: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
104.28.25.2: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...2/information/
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Fake 'Invoice' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/775-we...e-pdf-malware/
26 May 2015 - "'775 Westminster Avenue APT D5 Fw: Invoice' coming from random email addresses and names with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Name: Invoice
Customer ID: 718527
Street Address
775 Westminster Avenue APT D5
Brooklyn, NY, 01748
Phone: (235) 194-2842
The customer ID number, The NY code and the Phone numbers are all random and different in each email. The attachment zip names are also random but all extract to the same invoice_company.exe
26 May 2015: 030018-.zip: Extracts to: invoice_company.exe
Current Virus total detections: 4/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1432647309/
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Tesco – Phish ...
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/collec...esco-phishing/
26 May 2015 - "'Collect a 80GBP reward!' pretending to come from Tesco <postmaster@ tescoina .com>. It is the end of May, just after the bank holiday. You have spent up to your limit on the credit cards and are wondering how to pay they bills until the next pay cheque arrives, when what looks like a miracle happens. An email arrives apparently from Tesco saying Collect a 80GBP reward! that offers you £80 for filling in a Tesco customer satisfaction -survey... it is a -scam- and is a phishing fraud designed to steal your bank and credit card details... If you open the link you see a webpage looking like this: (I had to split it into 2 parts to take a screenshot):
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...co-survey1.png
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...co-survey2.png
All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email or follow links in them..."
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Fake 'INV-152307', 'Invoice charge' SPAM, Chrome Lure used in Facebook Attack
FYI...
Fake 'INV-152307' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/anthon...sheet-malware/
27 May 2015 - "'Anthony Alexandra Associates MAY INV-152307 GBP 418.80' pretending to come from Lauren Braisby <lauren.braisby@ reed .co .uk> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...GBP-418.80.png
25 February 2015: logmein_pro_receipt.xls - Current Virus total detections: 1/57*
... which downloads Dridex banking malware from http ://wingtouch .com/776/331.exe (VirusTotal**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c...is/1432725577/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1432727693/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
185.11.247.226: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
88.221.14.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
wingtouch .com: 64.29.151.221: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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Fake 'Invoice charge' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/announ...sheet-malware/
27 May 2015 - "'Announce of importance: Invoice charge' coming from random names, companies and email addresses with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The emails looks like:
Hi,
Please see attached the copy of invoice from 22/05/2015.
Please can you send a revised statement so we can settle any outstanding balances.
Kind Regards,
Mason Lloyd
-Or-
Your monthly Rainbow Communications invoice is attached to this mail.
This bill is for account RT963382
Please note that for those who receive multiple reports you may need to check your attachment field on your e-mail program to ensure that you have received them all.
Louie Hood
Business Account Manager
-Or-
Good morning,
Our billing department have identified that you are getting both a hard copy and an e-mail copy of your bill. As a result you will be getting a monthly £3 hard copy fee.
Can you let me know if the hard copy can be removed?
Kind regards
Angie Ayers
Business Account Manager
27 May 2015 : F6F0_C6C7DE4EE83EDC.doc - No detections anywhere and all automatic analysis has failed. The file appears to be base 64 encoded text that I haven’t yet managed to decode and find a working content...
Update: 2nd version 25B5F_7B101029E76005.doc (VirusTotal*), so far I haven’t found a payload and the only automatic analysis hasn’t found anything... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1432729315/
File name: 25B5F_7B101029E76005.doc
Detection ratio: 0/57
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Fake 'Statement' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/statem...sheet-malware/
27 May 2015 - "'Statement from [random company]' coming from random companies, names and email addresses with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please see attached statement.
Please be advised that our company is now incorporated andtrades as DOMINO’S PIZZA GROUP PLC. Ourbank is still Ulster Bank, 14 High Street, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 1BJ with newaccount details as follows:
Sort Code: 98-12-30
Account Number: 10991670
Ulster Bank has switched over our direct debits etc. for usso please take this letter as notification of same.
Our company number isNI624042.
DOMINO’S PIZZA GROUP PLC VAT registration number: GB184578365.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuedsupport. If you should need any further information then please do not hesitateto contact us.
Regards,
Della Medina
Accounts Dept.
-Or-
Please see attached statement.
Please be advised that our company is now incorporated andtrades as Cleantec Equipment Ltd. Ourbank is still Ulster Bank, 14 High Street, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 1BJ with newaccount details as follows:
Sort Code: 98-12-30
Account Number: 10991670
Ulster Bank has switched over our direct debits etc. for usso please take this letter as notification of same.
Our company number isNI624042.
Cleantec Equipment Ltd VAT registration number: GB184578365.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuedsupport. If you should need any further information then please do not hesitateto contact us.
Regards,
Dallas Dickerson
Accounts Dept.
27 May 2015: 0A15_968CD62833A4B.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/56*
... Once again today Analysis -fails- to give any download locations. It looks like the same behaviour as today’s earlier attempt Announce of importance: Invoice charge – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware**... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1432735276/
** http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/announ...sheet-malware/
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Chrome Lure used in Facebook Attack ...
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...es-new-policy/
May 26, 2015 - "... cybercriminals keep using Google Chrome and Facebook to infect their victims with malware... We’ve already seen both platforms be used as parts of malicious social engineering schemes. Both Google and Facebook are aware of this and have taken steps to protect their users. The number of times malicious Chrome extensions have sprouted, for example, has driven Google to restrict the use of any extension not available on the Chrome Web Store. Unfortunately, initiatives like these have not deterred cybercriminal efforts. Our findings also show that many of these platforms users still get tricked.
Message on Facebook: Clicking the link led us to a site with a page designed to mimic the look and feel of Facebook. The page even pretends to have content from YouTube. Visiting the -malicious- site led to the automatic download of a file titled Chrome_Video_installer.scr. The filename used makes it seem that it’s a harmless Chrome browser plugin required to play videos.
Malicious page with the Facebook design: This supposed video installer file is detected as TROJ_KILIM.EFLD. This variant attempts to download another file — possibly the final payload — but the site is currently down. However, it should be noted that KILIM malware are known to be -malicious- Chrome extensions and plugins. KILIM variants have also been observed to spam Facebook messages and cause system infection... We checked the landing page and found out that the Philippines had the most number of users who visited the site, followed by those from Indonesia, India, Brazil, and the U.S... these countries are the same ones reported to have the highest percentage in terms of Facebook penetration... Given the popularity of Facebook, members of the site must be discerning when it comes to dealing with the content they come across with. -Never- click links from unknown or unverified sites, especially if the content sounds too interesting to be true. Cybercriminals often use shocking or eye-catching content to convince users to visit malicious websites. It’s far better to click links that lead to a reputable source than some random blog or site. The Trend Micro Site Safety Center* can also be used to check if websites are safe or not. The same can be said for links or attachments sent by friends. It’s worth the effort to first confirm the message before clicking the link or opening the attachment..."
* http://global.sitesafety.trendmicro.com/
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Fake 'latest invoice', 'Chasing delivery' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'latest invoice' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-l...sheet-malware/
28 May 2015 - "'Your latest invoice from The Fuelcard Company UK Ltd' pretending to come from invoicing@ fuelcards .co .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Please find your latest invoice attached.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact our Customer
Service Team at invoicing@ fuelcards .co .uk
Regards
The Fuelcard Compa
28 May 2015: invoice.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/57*
... This malicious macro downloads http ://contesafricains .com/01/59.exe (VirusTotal**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1432800000/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1432800544/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
134.0.115.157: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
contesafricains .com: 213.186.33.19: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
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Fake 'Chasing delivery' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/212-b5...sheet-malware/
28 May 2015 - "'212-B59329-23A – Chasing delivery' pretending to come from Rachel.Hopkinson@ anixter .com with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...g-delivery.png
28 May 2015 : RR1A240D.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/57*
... downloads http ://swiftlaw .com/01/59.exe** which is same Dridex banking malware as today’s earlier malicious word doc malspam run 'Your latest invoice from The Fuelcard Company UK Ltd – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware'**... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3...is/1432811062/
** http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-l...sheet-malware/
swiftlaw .com: 216.251.32.98: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
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Fake email, 'slide1', 'Order confirmation' SPAM
FYI...
Fake email SPAM - doc/xls malware attachment
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/uplata...sheet-malware/
1 Jun 2015 - "'Uplata po pon 43421' pretending to come from Mirjana Prgomet <mirjana@ fokus-medical .hr> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email has a totally -blank- body with just an attachment.
1 June 2015: report20520159260[1].doc - Current Virus total detections: 1/56*
... downloads Dridex banking malware from http ://jcmartz .com/1/09.exe (VirusTotal**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1433147275/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1433147275/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
31.186.99.250: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
jcmartz .com: 66.175.58.9: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/06/malw...pon-43421.html
1 Jun 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
31.186.99.250
107.170.1.205
146.185.128.226
144.76.238.214 "
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Fake 'slide1' SPAM - doc/xls malware attachment
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/emaili...sheet-malware/
1 Jun 2015 - "'Emailing: slide1 Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:36:47 +0200' pretending to come from Simon Harrington <simonharrington@ talktalk .net> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ing-slide1.png
1 Jun 2015 : slide1.doc - Current Virus total detections:2/56*
... which connects to and downloads http ://216.22.14.37/~congafx/1/09.exe which is an updated Dridex banking malware (VirusTotal**)... It is using the same file name as today’s earlier malspam run but is a totally different file size Uplata po pon 43421 -Mirjana Prgomet – fokus-medical – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware***... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1433162360/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...ab09/analysis/
*** http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/uplata...sheet-malware/
216.22.14.37: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/06/malw...lktalknet.html
1 Jun 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
31.186.99.250
107.170.1.205
146.185.128.226
144.76.238.214 ..."
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Fake 'Order confirmation' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/order-...sheet-malware/
1 Jun 2015 - "'Order confirmation 300-2015001469' with no apparent -from- address or -sender- & a
-blank- empty body that is addressed to:
To: <p.pichler@ allfi .com<randomname>@ Your email domain> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email has a completely blank body.
1 June 2015: Order confirmation 300-2015001469.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/56* ... downloads the same Dridex banking Trojan as one of today’s earlier word based malspam runs Emailing: slide1 Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:36:47 +0200 – Simon Harrington – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware**. The single version I examined downloaded from http ://irpanet .com/1/09.exe but there are -multiple- download locations... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7...is/1433170304/
** http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/emaili...sheet-malware/
irpanet .com: 64.29.151.221: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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DYRE Banking Malware Upsurge, Fake 'Rental Invoice' SPAM, Malvertising report
FYI...
DYRE Banking Malware Upsurge - Europe and North America Most Affected
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...most-affected/
June 2, 2015 - "Online banking users in Europe and North America are experiencing the upsurge of DYRE*, a malware family notorious for the multiple ways it steals data and its ties to parcel mule scams, among others. There has been a 125% increase of DYRE-related infections worldwide this quarter compared to the last, proving that cybercriminal interest in online banking has only continued to grow... We looked closely at the financial institutions whose URLs were contained in the DYRE malware samples. We noted URLs associated with several multinational banks, including their varied country branches, divisions, and the like... What’s troubling with this recent spam run is that it shows how online banking malware continue to come up with versions designed to defeat detection. UPATRE, the known precursor to DYRE, is part of the infection chain in this threat. Historically, UPATRE has been known to be the downloader or middleman malware of sorts for other infamous malware like ZBOT, CRILOCK, and ROVNIX. This time, UPATRE has grown beyond being just a downloader of other malware. Its new variant can -disable- detection, thus making it easier for the download of DYRE or other malware into user systems. Specifically, its additional functions include the following:
- Disabling firewall/network related security by modifying some registry entries.
- Disabling firewall/network related security via stoppage of related services.
- Disabling window’s default anti-malware feature (WinDef)
Recently, we have also seen a UPATRE variant (detected TROJ_UPATRE.HM) being dropped as a Microsoft Compiled HTML/ Help file (.CHM) on a spam run victimizing JPMorgan Chase & Co. customers. Looking at the content of the spam mail, we notice that it follows a typical social engineering ruse. It specifically tries to -scare- users into opening an attached .EXE file to find out about a non-existent law that supposedly doubles their tax. When it comes to tax, people can get worried enough to succumb to the scam. Seeing that most samples we have seen so far use the English language, it is likely that users of the DYRE malware have been sending out similar messages to a variety of regions, without specifically tweaking according to language and banking preferences... It pays to be prepared especially when consequences are literally DYRE. As we have previously advocated, banking malware that spread via -spammed- mails can be fought off by knowing your banking policies, downloading a full-featured antimalware solution, immediately changing passwords and monitoring online banking transactions in case of infections, and alerting the bank when you spot suspicious transactions..."
* http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...alware-part-1/
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Fake 'Rental Invoice' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/june-2...sheet-malware/
2 Jun 2015 - "'June 2015 Rental Invoice' pretending to come from Alex Batts <abatts@ bbsp .co .uk> is being delivered mangled and malformed. It is supposed to come with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment but that is being embedded as a base 64 encoded set of text in the mangled body of the email, rather than being attached. Most users should be protected from this malware, but be aware that some mail servers will automatically fix this sort of garbled corruption and deliver the email as a warning email with a zip of the extracted content. Do-not-click on or open the word doc inside the zip... The email which comes in -garbled- looks like:
[Garbled text...]
Hi
Please find attached the Rental Invoice for June 2015 – which is due for pa=
yment on or before 10st June.
Have a lovely afternoon.
Kind regards
Alex Batts
Forum Receptionist
Telephone : 0117 370 7700
Mobile : 0750 083 5323 ...
[More garbled text...]
2 June 2015: June 2015 Rental Invoice – Inv 103756.doc - Current Virus total detections: 1/56* | 2/57**
The second -malicious- macro downloads http ://amagumori.3dfxwave .com/7/8.exe Which is a Dridex banking malware (VirusTotal***). The first will also download the same malware but from a different location... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it... Never just blindly click on the file in your email program..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1433243825/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0...is/1433250642/
*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1433248974/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
31.186.99.250: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
5.178.43.49: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
amagumori.3dfxwave .com: 202.129.207.121: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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Fake 'Invoice ID' SPAM - malware attachment
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/06/02/emai...ntains-trojan/
June 2, 2015 - "... intercepted a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subject “Invoice ID”. This email is sent from a -spoofed- address and has the following short body:
INVOICE
Invoice ID: 6568469164
Store id: 9135
The attached file 6568469164_9135.zip contains the 156 kB large file invoice_company.exe. The trojan is known as PE:Malware.Obscure!1.9C59 or Trojan.Win32.Qudamah.Gen.24. At the time of writing, 2 of the 57 AV engines did detect the trojan at Virus Total*..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d...is/1433259213/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.238.136.31: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
188.120.194.101: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
173.243.255.79: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
90.84.60.99: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
188.120.194.101: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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2015 Malvertising infected millions of users
- http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3049
June 2, 2015 - "New research from Malwarebytes has found that -malvertising- is one of the primary infection vectors used to reach millions of consumers this year. The analysis looked at the three large scale zero-day attacks affecting Flash Player*, and the results have been presented at Infosecurity Europe 2015:
> http://www.net-security.org/images/a...s-02062015.jpg
Analysis of one particular zero-day attack instigated using the HanJuan Exploit Kit showed that cybercriminals paid an average of 49p for every 1,000 infected adverts impressions on major websites at highly trafficked times of day. This amount could even drop as low as 4p per infected ad impression on lesser-known websites and during quieter times of day. Malicious adverts placed on popular websites including The Huffington Post, Answers.com and Daily Motion, which all boast monthly unique users in the millions, are responsible for exposing vast numbers of consumers to zero-day attacks. Even consumers and businesses running the -latest- versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Flash Player are susceptible to becoming immediately infected when exposed to this type of threat which makes it particularly lucrative for the criminal community. Further, with one zero-day remaining active for almost two months of the analysis period there is scope for exploits to have especially wide-reaching effects. The nefarious use of the online ad industry is facilitated by real-time bidding as this allows advertisers to bid in real-time for specific targets and weed out non-genuine users or those that should not be targeted by exploits... This is especially important with the kind of malware that is dropped by exploit kits, and in particular ransomware. Companies can literally be crippled by such malware, lose customers and in some cases put their business in jeopardy."
* https://www.malwarebytes.org/threezerodays/
"... new vulnerabilities are found and weaponized at a much faster rate. Combine this trend with the fact that rolling out patches requires time and testing for businesses and you see the issue: A window of opportunity to exploit systems emerges... While keeping systems up to date remains one of the most important pieces of advice against exploits, zero-days make it completely irrelevant... To face this new reality, businesses and consumers must adapt as well by adopting new tools to safeguard their assets..."
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Fake 'your receipt' SPAM, Myfax malspam
FYI...
Fake 'your receipt' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-r...sheet-malware/
3 Jun 2015 - "'your receipt' pretending to come from Amy Morley <amymorley@ howardcundey .com> with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs...
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-con...ur-receipt.png
3 June 2015: 20150414151213550.doc - Current Virus total detections: 3/57*
The malicious macro in this version connects to and downloads anthonymaddaloni .com/~web/5/0.exe which is a Dridex banking malware (VirusTotal**)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1...is/1433318349/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5...is/1433318155/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
37.140.195.177: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...7/information/
5.178.43.34: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...4/information/
anthonymaddaloni .com: 69.72.240.66: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...6/information/
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Myfax malspam wave - links to malware and Neutrino exploit kit
- https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=19759
2015-06-03 - "... there have been more waves of malicious spam (malspam) spoofing myfax .com. On Tuesday 2015-06-02, the messages contained links to a zip archive of a Pony downloader. Tuesday's messages also had links pushing Neutrino exploit kit (EK). Spoofed myfax emails are nothing new. They've been around for years. This is yet another wave in the continuous onslaught of malspam that organizations face every day... I noticed similar messages last week, but they were all blocked. At that time, I wasn't able to investigate any further. On 2015-06-02, checking my employer's spam filters revealed spoofed myfax messages were coming in again after a 3 day break... Below is an example of the messages blocked by my organization's spam filters on 2015-06-02:
> https://isc.sans.edu/diaryimages/ima...-image-03a.jpg
The above example shows 2 types of URLs. The first points to a zip file. The second points to URLs ending in fax.php that push Neutrino EK. Last week's malspam only had links to the zip files... In a lab environment, those links ending with fax.php returned HTML with iframes leading to Neutrino EK..."
(More detail at the isc URL above.)
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Fake email “Fax to” contains trojan
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2015/06/03/fake...ntains-trojan/
June 3, 2015 - "... intercepted a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subject “Fax to”.
This email is send from a -spoofed- address and has the following body:
Fax Massege:
Fax ID: 1500566473
User ID: 429286424
The attached file fax-1500566473_429286424.zip contains the 148 kB large file Document_invoice.exe.
The trojan is known as Downloader-FAVN!A43A201F788E, Trj/Genetic.gen, PE:Malware.Obscure!1.9C59 or Win32.Trojan.Fakedoc.Auto. At the time of writing, 4 the 57 AV engines did detect the trojan at Virus Total*..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e...is/1433353970/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.238.141.75: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
188.120.194.101: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
92.38.41.38: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...8/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
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Fake 'Scan', 'Internet Invoice' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'Scan' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/scan-n...e-pdf-malware/
4 June 2015 - "'Scan number: 3744444093' [all the numbers are random] coming from random names and random email addresses with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Scan number: 3744444093
Pages: 54
4 June 2015: scan-3744444093_54.zip: Extracts to: Document_invoice.exe
Current Virus total detections: 0/58* | 1/57** This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8...is/1433413368/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.238.141.75: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
188.120.194.101: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
94.103.54.19: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
5.178.43.35: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...is/1433412921/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
104.238.141.75: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...5/information/
188.120.194.101: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
185.47.89.249: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
5.178.43.49: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...9/information/
188.120.194.101: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
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Fake 'Internet Invoice' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/eclips...sheet-malware/
4 June 2015 - "'Eclipse Internet Invoice – 17987580EC' pretending to come from customer@ eclipse .net .uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for choosing to receive your invoice by email. Please find this attached.
If you would like to change any of your billing options, please log in to My Eclipse using your registration email and password, at www .eclipse .net.uk/billing. Alternatively, you can contact our Customer Service Team, Monday to Friday 9am – 5.30pm, on the telephone number...
Kind regards
Eclipse Internet
This email has been scanned for all viruses. Please consider the environment before printing this email. The content of this email and any attachment is private and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying or forwarding of this email and/or its attachments is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by email and delete this message and any attachments immediately. Nothing in this email shall bind the Company or any of its subsidiaries or businesses in any... [blah, blah, blah]
4 June 2015 : invoice_EC_17987580_20141013081054.doc - Current Virus total detections: 2/57*
... the macro connects to http ://empreinte .com.ar/42/91.exe which is a Dridex banking malware (virusTotal***)... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9...is/1433415353/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2...is/1433415107/
empreinte .com.ar: 200.68.105.31: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...1/information/
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Dyre banking Trojan infections up 125%
- http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3050
June 4, 2015 - "Cybercriminal interest in online banking continues to grow, and crooks wielding the Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan continue spewing out spam emails delivering a new variant of the malware:
> http://www.net-security.org/images/a...e-04062015.jpg
'There has been a 125% increase of Dyre-related infections worldwide this quarter compared to the last', Trend Micro researchers have noted*. 'Roughly 7 in 10 users infected during the last three months came from the European (39% of the total count) and North American (38%) regions. Asia Pacific came in third, with 19% of the infections.' In early May, there was a considerable spike in these spam emails targeting the APAC region. 'We looked closely at the financial institutions whose URLs were contained in the Dyre malware samples. We noted URLs associated with several multinational banks, including their varied country branches, divisions, and the like,' the researchers shared. As before, Dyre is -not- delivered directly via email. Instead, the malicious attachments hold the Upatre downloader, which then downloads Dyre. Upatre also got updated, and these newer versions have the ability to disable firewall/network related security by modifying some registry entries and via -stoppage- of related services, and to disable Windows' default anti-malware feature (Windows Defender). The emails delivering the malware try to -scare- users into opening the attached file by claiming that the recipients' tax payments have doubled. So far, they have been mostly in English, but Trend Micro expects more regionalized messages in the future, as the attackers are looking to expand globally."
* http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...most-affected/
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Fake 'PPL invoice', 'General Election 2015 Invoices' SPAM
FYI...
Fake 'PPL invoice' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-p...sheet-malware/
5 June 2015 - "'Your PPL invoice is attached' pretending to come from no-reply@ PPLUK .COM with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear Customer,
Please find attached your PPL invoice for your licence to use recorded music (whether via CDs, Radio/TV broadcasts, background music systems or other sources) at your premises.
Permission to use PPL repertoire under the terms of the licence will only be effective once payment has been made. Payment of your invoice can be made online at ppluk.com/payonline or you can call us on 020 7534 1070 to pay by credit or debit card. All payment methods can be found on the back of your invoice.
This is an automated email. If you have any queries about the invoice or requirements for a PPL licence, please refer to the contact information below.
Yours faithfully,
PPL Customer Services
PPL
1 Upper James Street London W1F 9DE
T +44 (0)20 7534 1070 ...
5 June 2015 : P_PP_INVN_02573466_01-43-52_03657322_NEWBUS_O_E.DOC
Current Virus total detections: 3/57* . The malicious macro in this version downloads Dridex banking malware from http ://g6000424 .ferozo .com/25/10.exe (VirusTotal**). Other download locations downloading the same Dridex banking malware that I have been informed about are:
http ://zolghadri-co .com/25/10.exe
http ://elkettasandassociates .com/25/10.exe
http ://segurosdenotebooks .com.br/25/10.exe
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1433498590/
** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...is/1433496324/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
203.151.94.120: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
88.221.15.80: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-add...0/information/
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Fake 'General Election 2015 Invoices' SPAM – doc/xls malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/genera...sheet-malware/
5 June 2015 - "'General Election 2015 Invoices' pretending to come from SIMSSL@ st-ives .co.uk with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment is another one from the current bot runs... The email looks like:
Dear Sir/Madam
Please find attached your invoice 62812 for GE2015
Please could payment be quoted with your constituency name/Invoice numbers
Our Bank Details are:
St Ives Management Services Limited
HSBC
Sort Code: 40-04-24
Account Number: 71419501
Account Name: St Ives Management Services Limited
Remittance advices should be emailed to simsAR@ st-ives .co.uk
If paying by cheque, please kindly remit to the address below and not to 1 Tudor Street:
St Ives Management Services Limited
c/o Branded3
2nd Floor, 2180 Century Way
Thorpe Park
Leeds
LS 8ZB
If you have already paid by credit card then there is no need for you to make payment again.
For payment queries please contact Steven Wilde 0113 306 6966
For invoice queries please contact Emily Villiers 0207 902 6449
Kind Regards
SIMS Sales Ledger...
5 June 2015 : 1445942147T0.doc ... which is -exactly- the same malware as described in 'Your PPL invoice is attached – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware'*
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/your-p...sheet-malware/
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/06/malw...tion-2015.html
5 June 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
203.151.94.120
31.186.99.250
146.185.128.226
185.12.95.40 "
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